A provocative and evocative understanding of Jesus by one of Asia's foremost theologians.

"Who could blame Jesus if he has grown a little tired of hearing over and over essentially the same thing about him said, taught, proclaimed, and preached by traditional Christianity for so many centuries with only slight variations from time to time?

"He himself strove to bring fresh air into the traditions of his own religion. He must be unable to suppress a sense of irony to know that the churches established in his name have come to revere him as a tradition that allows little fresh air to enter.

"Now that new voices are being enunciated about him by those churches and Christians outside the traditional framework of Christianity, he must be experiencing an emancipation from the confinement of orthodoxy that has immobilized him."

-From the Forencerd

"C.S. Song groans, cries, shouts, protests, and argues passionately against the God who crucified Jesus among the people of Asia. He sees theology as a biography of God, not only about words spoken or written but also about action and life. In Song's theology, God's biography is the socio-biography of the people. This theology is a great leap from Western and Latin American liberation theologies."

-David Kwang-sun Suh, Professor of Theology EWHA Woman's University, Seoul

a powerful Asian Christology. The suffering of Asian women, men, and children stuggling for life in the face of death confronts us with the passion of Christ in our neighbor.

-Letty M. Russell, Professor of Theology The Divinity School, Yale University

"Drawing upon a vast storehouse of Asian wisdom, ancient and modern, Song helps us to recover the authentic tradition of Jerusalem...