WATERBUFFALO THEOLOGY

By Kosuke Koyama

"Represents the best of the current exciting publications by Asian scholars attempting to 'reformulate' the Christian message so that it will speak to the Asian people. A Japanese Christian, Koyama has served as a Christian mis-sionary to several Asian countries, especially Thailand and Singapore. His humorous, witty style and his everyday illustrations help open new vistas of understanding. The book offers insights into contemporary missionary prob-lems and should excite prospective missionaries. To undergraduate students interested in church-related careers, it should provide insights into the ex-citement of Asian theologizing in the 1970s."

CHOICE

"Dr. Koyama uses poetry, diagrams and lyrical descriptions to make his thought real; his use of symbols is Oriental, as is evident in the title of his book and many of the chapters. The discussion cannot fail to put Western white readers into a different world from the one we are accustomed to, and, at the close, give us a more universal view of our faith."

CONCERN

"Koyama had struggled with the problems of communication in a concrete situation. Now that this account of confessing Christ, of theological reflections and action of an evangelist with a sensitive mind is shared in print with the churches in the world at large, readers will have the opportunity to enter themselves into the world of refreshing thought and life of an Asian missionary thinker, and appropriate the insights he richly shares. No Christian educators and contemporary students of missiology should miss these gems."

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

"Koyama's essays are a delightful introduction to the Asian culture within which he must do theology. They are a striking reminder to those of us in the West that we need to re-examine our cultural settings or to be made freshly aware of their importance. On this basis I can recommend them highly. I should especially recommend the one entitled "Gun and Ointment" for those American Christians who have any feeling, however slight, that the US is the new chosen race"

THE REVIEW OF BOOKS AND RELIGION

KOSUKE KOYAMA is senior lecturer in religious studies, University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was a Japanese Kyodan missionary to the Church of Christ in Thailand, 1960-1968, teaching at Thailand Theological Seminary in Chiengmal From 1968 to 1974 he was executive director of the Association of Theological Schools in Southeast Asia, dean of the Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology, and editor c with headquarters in Singapore

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