Saving God's Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation through Honor and Shame - Paperback

by Jackson Wu (Author)

Years ago, the author had a startling realization. Theologians and pastors have long taught on the glory of God and its central importance in the Bible. However, because he was living in East Asia, it also dawned on the author that this sort of talk about God's glory, praising Him, and magnifying His name was simply another way of talking about honor and shame. When the author looked at most theology and ministry-related books, he found that honor and shame seemed to be treated differently. Anthropologists talked about honor-shame, but theologians largely focused more on legal metaphors. The author could see both themes in Scripture but couldn't find help as to how to bring them together. This study was developed in order to address this gap and bring those themes together. Sign up for the WCIU Press newsletter to be notified about new books from this author and more http: //eepurl.com/rB15L

Author Biography

Jackson Wu has a Ph.D in Applied Theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, having earned an M.Div (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), M.A. (Philosophy, Texas A&M), and a B.S. (Applied Mathematics, Texas A&M). He has worked as a church planter and now teaches theology and missiology for Chinese pastors. In addition to his published journal articles, he maintains a blog at jacksonwu.org.