The Liberative Cross [Hardcover]

The Liberative Cross offers a theological grounding of the orthopraxy that calls North American Korean women to live as imago Dei, mirroring the perichoretic fellowship of the triune God in contemporary social relations through living in imitatio crucis and imitatio relationis. In so doing, this book emphasizes three elements. First, an appropriate theology of the cross meets the challenges or concerns of developing reality. Second, it is a feminist theology in the sense that it seeks to retrieve a theology of the cross that is life-giving and liberating for women. Third, it is a social trinitarian approach to the theology of the cross that can reveal the essence of God to be in relation, mutuality, and community in diversity. The constructive work achieved in this book makes a great contribution to pastoral and ecclesial praxis and imagination. The originality of Hye Kyung Heo (Han)'s thinking and her insight is impressive. Even as this project is a contextual theology, particularly focused on the experience of Korean women who find themselves as immigrants or children of immigrants in North America, it also renders more general insights on the theology of the cross, feminist critiques, and the way those meld with different contexts. This book also critiques much of what has been produced around the Korean experience of han in the light of a changing cultural context in immigrant communities. I consider this an original, important contribution to the field. --Charles Fensham, Professor of Systematic Theology and Missiology, Knox College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada This thesis offers a constructive feminist theology that reopens engagement with theology of the cross and thus with the received doctrine on atonement, in the face of feminist critique. A social Trinitarian theology of the cross is thus shaped to a new prophetic purpose for the Korean-North American context, particularly for younger generations of Korean-North American women. . . . lS%