{"title":"Rhetorical and Postcolonial Readings of John 4 and 8: its Hermeneutical Application in Korea","authors":"Kwon Oh-young","doi":"10.54424/ajt.v35i1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54424/ajt.v35i1.3","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article explores rhetorical and postcolonial readings of John 4 and 8. These Johannine chapters contain rhetorical characteristics and the rhetorical technique of “comparison” that is implicitly indicated in John 4:3-9 and 8:48-58. These approaches suggest that the Johannine author deliberately employed them in order to present Jesus as Christ/Messiah who embraced nations—Jews, Samaritans, and all Gentile nations, just as Abraham is seen as the father of all nations. Rhetorical and postcolonial readings further highlight Jesus’s messianic act of passing through Samaria, which challenged and decolonized the Jews’ (pre)dominant claim of their religious and ethnic superiority over Samaritans under the colonization of the Roman Empire and the hegemony of Roman imperialism. Furthermore, the highlight is reread and re-evaluated for Koreans in the Korean peninsula, which is in a difficult political and diplomatic position that requires reconciliation and reunification between the two Koreas. All these hermeneutical attempts and outcomes encourage and motivate one to go beyond religious and ritual readings of the Gospel of John and place more emphasis on political and ideological readings of Jesus’s interactions with Samaritans and Jews in the gospel.","PeriodicalId":262921,"journal":{"name":"Asia Journal Theology","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132697305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Book of Jeremiah as Case Study in Asian Contextual Theology","authors":"Jerry Hwang","doi":"10.54424/ajt.v35i1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54424/ajt.v35i1.2","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe past decades have seen many calls for Asian contextual theology thais both recognizably Asian and true to the Bible’s message. Given the lack of consensus on how to do such theology, however, the present study proposes that the Old Testament itself provides a worthy example to follow. Using the book of Jeremiah as a case study, it is suggested that the prophet’s engagemenwith the historical situation and theological issues of the sixth century BCE— fatalism, the identity of the divine vis-à-vis monism, prosperity theology, and cosmic suffering—offers a hermeneutical model for engaging modern Asian religious issues such as Islam, Hinduism, folk religion, and Buddhism.","PeriodicalId":262921,"journal":{"name":"Asia Journal Theology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116544353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Youth Identity in the Digital Age","authors":"Vo Huong Nam","doi":"10.54424/ajt.v35i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54424/ajt.v35i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe digital culture has a profound influence on the formation of personal identity among the youth of Gens Y and Z. The networked society has strongly affected the process of forming an “inner identity,” a critical task in the adolescent period. The design of digital social media and apps can enslave youth in the “hive” and take away the solitude and resources needed for them to cultivate their “inner identity.” Therefore, there is a need for institutions such as school, family, and church to reinvent better ways to accommodate youth and engage them with digital media with responsibility and discernment.","PeriodicalId":262921,"journal":{"name":"Asia Journal Theology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124334092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liturgical Inculturation: Decolonization or Decolonialization? Examining Misa ng Bayang Pilipino","authors":"E. Foley","doi":"10.54424/ajt.v35i1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54424/ajt.v35i1.5","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractRoman Catholic eucharistic worship is steeped in Western traditions and law. Since Vatican II there has been permission for the inculturation of worship, including the Eucharist. This study will explore to what extent such inculturation is true decolonization while continuing to be a faux decolonialization. The thesis being tested here is that inculturation as a form of liturgical decolonization returns the “sacred land” or liturgical terrain—for example, language, architecture, vesture, music, and so forth—to various indigenous peoples, societies, and even countries. Such decolonizing, however, is not necessarily a decolonializing. The epistemic frameworks and European (even medieval) imagination foundational for the legal and theological frameworks that officially define Roman Catholic Eucharist are seldom if ever challenged, much less changed. The underlying question is whether Roman Catholic Eucharist can ever achieve true decolonialization.","PeriodicalId":262921,"journal":{"name":"Asia Journal Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129891648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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