13 | LIVING STONES, LIVING HOPE
STUDY 2
KOREAN THEOLOGY
From Africa we move to Asia as this session focusses on Christian Theology in Korea. Korean theology sought to engage with the local religious and cultural reality, influenced by Confucianism and Shamanism, as well as its social reality, which was marked by the suffering of the poor.
In many ways it undertook the “double baptism” that the Sri Lankan theologian Aloysius Pieris considered as the defining feature of a relevant Asian Christianity, namely the double baptism in the Jordan of Asian religiosity and the Calvary of Asian poverty.