Pieris confronts two of the most urgent and complex questions facing Christians today - so many poor people and so many religions. He believes that the approaches of the Christian Churches to these questions will determine whether Christianity will continue to have any relevance for Asia or not.
Calls attention to issues that make many people uncomfortable but which need to be integrated in the consciousness since they are part of human reality. Could help shed light on the dark side of the history of Christianity (sexuality having been skirted or denied by Catholic leaders and intellectuals) and can also help bring about a more positive valuation of corporeality and of creation as such.
Following his widely acclaimed "Constructing Local Theologies," Robert J. Schreiter's "The New Catholicity" takes a close look at the issues that are reshaping theology today. Schreiter proposes that an expanded concept of catholicity can meet the challenge of forming a theology that can cohere between the opposites of "global" and "local."
The depth and radicality that make Aloysius Pieris one of the most exciting and original Asian Christian thinkers today are well represented in this book. Writing as an adept in Buddhist and Western philosophy, Pieris's insights bring into sharp focus the issues facing Christian theology, particularly in Christology and women's issues, in Asia today.