Download e-book for iPad: Messiah in Weakness: A Portrait of Jesus from the by Yung Suk Kim

Yung Suk Kim increases a perennial query approximately Jesus: How do we method the historic Jesus? Kim proposes to interpret him from the point of view of the dispossessed--through the eyes of weak point. Exploring Jesus's adventure, interpretation, and enactment of weak spot, knowing weak point as either human and advantage, Kim deals a brand new portrait of Jesus who's vulnerable and robust, and empowered to convey God's rule, replete with mercy, within the right here and now. Arguing opposed to the grain of culture that the powerful Jesus identifies with the vulnerable, Kim demonstrates that it's the susceptible Jesus who identifies with the vulnerable. The paradoxical fact with Jesus is: "Because he's susceptible, he's strong." in any case, Jesus dies a loss of life of paradox that unearths either his final weak point that calls for divine justice, and his unyielding spirit of affection for the realm and fact of God.

"A well timed intervention of public biblical interpretation. Yung Suk Kim's interpretation of Jesus offers a much-needed intervention in our present cultural second. A society made up our minds to say its energy evidently seeks a Jesus who affirms its striving; Kim names such theologies idolatrous and demonstrates how Jesus introduced transformation out of his personal weak spot. Acknowledging that we're all vulnerable, he purposes, we will be able to dwell in team spirit with the remainder of humanity."
--Greg Carey, Professor of recent testomony, Lancaster Theological Seminary

"In Messiah in Weakness, Dr. Kim offers the exciting and interesting contextualized proposition that Jesus of Nazareth embodied either weak point and energy. increasing the conceptualization of weak spot, Kim convincingly demonstrates how Jesus, via his ministry of training and therapeutic and his suffering/crucifixion, enacted weak point, advocating for the vulnerable. examining in the course of the decolonizing lens of weak point, Kim publications readers alongside a direction paved with heritage of interpretation, adept literary research, contextual theology, and cultural and modern relevance."
--Mitzi J. Smith, affiliate Professor of recent testomony and Early Christian experiences, Ashland Theological Seminary/Detroit Center

Yung Suk Kim is affiliate Professor of latest testomony and Early Christianity on the Samuel DeWitt Proctor tuition of Theology of Virginia Union college. he's the writer of 7 books, together with Christ's physique in Corinth (2008) and Resurrecting Jesus (Cascade, 2015). He has edited volumes: 1-2 Corinthians (2013) and Reading Minjung Theology within the Twenty-First Century (Pickwick, 2013). he's the editor of the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion.