Toward A Study of Han(II) : A Theological Experiment of Han

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The Forgotten Theology. Once Gustavo Guti?rrez critically pinpointed the salient character of Christian religion: "Christianity has largely been, and still is, closely linked with one culture(Western), one ethnic strain(white), and one class(the dominant). Its history, too, has been written from a white, occidental, bourgeois bias,"14) As a matter of fact, Christianity in general is an outcome of Western mainstream tradition and its theology in particular is a product made in the Western hemisphere: one that is exclusively fabricated in the hegemonic matrix of the conventional hermeneutical circle which has long since negated the significant reality of the forgotten people, the forgotten tradition, and the forgotten God in the historical context of the world. The way in which Western traditional theology has been constructed in congruity with the circle, as already indicated, has deconstructed many other ways in which one may discover a number of truthful facts in those forgotten realities, recover their theological implications at the deeper level of meaning, and then uncover a new kind of theology from the traditionally forgotten point of view. Western mainline theologians in this sense are fundamentally incapable of having any room for doing theology with, the forgotten matters, since they are caught up in a vicious condition of the hermeneutical circle where the people are absent, their tradition is lost, and God remains dead.