An Emerging Mystic Theology of Sustainability Amidst Rapid Changes for an Indigenous Church of Asia

by Jojo M. Fung, S.J.

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In Asia, where only seven percent of the population are Christians, the Church needs to engage in dialogue with people of different faiths. Jojo M. Fung, S.J. (“An Emerging Mystic Theology of Sustainability amidst Rapid Changes for an Indigenous Church of Asia”) proposes a new way of being Church among the indigenous peoples of Asia—by dialoguing with them in everyday interaction, accompaniment, and religious experience, with the latter achieved only by means of “experiential participation” in their religious rituals so as to discover their religious and moral values that resonate with the Christian faith. In addition to this form of dialogue at the level of religious experience, Fung also sees the need to engage in what he calls “dialogue of liberative struggle,” i.e., identification with the indigenous people’s struggle against all forms of oppression: political, social, economic, ecological, etc. “In this way,” Fung says, “the Church of Asia is truly inculturated from within to become a truly indigenous way of being the Church of Asia in the tribal ancestral homeland” (73). – from the Editor’s Preface

An Emerging Mystic Theology of Sustainability Amidst Rapid Changes for an Indigenous Church of Asia

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In Asia, where only seven percent of the population are Christians, the Church needs to engage in dialogue with people of different faiths. Jojo M. Fung, S.J. (“An Emerging Mystic Theology of Sustainability amidst Rapid Changes for an Indigenous Church of Asia”) proposes a new way of being Church among the indigenous peoples of Asia—by dialoguing with them in everyday interaction, accompaniment, and religious experience, with the latter achieved only by means of “experiential participation” in their religious rituals so as to discover their religious and moral values that resonate with the Christian faith. In addition to this form of dialogue at the level of religious experience, Fung also sees the need to engage in what he calls “dialogue of liberative struggle,” i.e., identification with the indigenous people’s struggle against all forms of oppression: political, social, economic, ecological, etc. “In this way,” Fung says, “the Church of Asia is truly inculturated from within to become a truly indigenous way of being the Church of Asia in the tribal ancestral homeland” (73). – from the Editor’s Preface

AuthorJojo M. Fung, S.J.
Volume No.29
Serial No.2
Start Page51
End Page73
Publication SeriesLANDAS
FormatEbook
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