Includes bibliographical references and index.

FOREWORD

PREFACE

I: POVERTY AND LIBERATION; 1. SPIRITUALITY IN A LIBERATEVE PERSPECTIVE; Liturgy versus Spirituality; Spirituality versus Secular Involvement; Secular Involvement versus Liturgy; 2. TO BE POOR AS JESUS WAS POOR?; Spirituality as a Struggle to Be Poor; Spirituality as a Struggle for the Poor; 3. IDEOLOGY AND RELIGION: SOME DEBATABLE POINTS; Problems of Definition; Crossing the Boundary; II: RELIGION AND LIBERATION; 4. ASIA''S NON-SEMITIC RELIGIONS AND THE MISSION OF LOCAL CHURCHES; Perspectives and Clarifications; Concrete Issues. The Way toward Ecclesiological Revolution: The Double Baptism in Asian Religion and Poverty5. WESTERN MODELS OF INCULTURATION: APPLICABLE IN ASIA?; The Greco-Roman Models of Inculturation: Not Applicable in Asia; The North European Model of Christianization: Too Late in Asia; The Monastic Paradigm: An Approximation to the Asian Mentality; 6. SPEAKING OF THE SON OF GOD IN NON-CHRISTIAN CULTURES; The Two Christological Perspectives in Asia Today; Two Perspectives for a Christology in Asia Today; III: THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION IN ASIA; 7. TOWARD AN ASIAN THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION. Toward a Definition of the Religio-Cultural DimensionNon-Christian Soteriology: Some Theological Perspectives; The Asian Sense in Theology; Conclusions; 8. THE PLACE OF NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS AND CULTURES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THIRD WORLD THEOLOGY; Theology of Religions: Current Boundaries of Orthodoxy; Toward a Third World Theology of Religions; 9. A THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION IN ASIAN CHURCHES?; Valid Theology and the Local Church: The Dilemma of Asian Catholics; Roman Christianity and the Stoic Perception of Liberation
The Elitist Concept of the Liberated Person The Biblical Perspective: The Messianic Role of the MassesAsian Theology and the Religiousness of the Poor; POSTSCRIPT-ASIA''S SEARCH FOR CHRIST: A SCRIPTURAL MEDITATION; NOTES; PUBLICATIONS IN WESTERN LANGUAGES; INDEX