{"product_id":"messiah-in-weakness-a-portrait-of-jesus-from-the-perspective-of-the-dispossessed-paperback","title":"Messiah in Weakness: A Portrait of Jesus from the Perspective of the Dispossessed - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYung Suk Kim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYung Suk Kim raises a perennial question about Jesus: How can we approach the historical Jesus? Kim proposes to interpret him from the perspective of the dispossessed--through the eyes of weakness. Exploring Jesus's experience, interpretation, and enactment of weakness, understanding weakness as both human condition and virtue, Kim offers a new portrait of Jesus who is weak and strong, and empowered to bring God's rule, replete with mercy, in the here and now. Arguing against the grain of tradition that the strong Jesus identifies with the weak, Kim demonstrates that it is the weak Jesus who identifies with the weak. The paradoxical truth with Jesus is: \"Because he is weak, he is strong.\" In the end, Jesus dies a death of paradox that reveals both his ultimate weakness that demands divine justice, and his unyielding spirit of love for the world and truth of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYung Suk Kim is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology of Virginia Union University. He is the author of seven books, including \u003ci\u003eChrist's Body in Corinth\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eResurrecting Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e (Cascade, 2015). He has edited two volumes: \u003ci\u003e1-2 Corinthians\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eReading Minjung Theology in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e (Pickwick, 2013). He is the editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Bible and Human Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42738978979936,"sku":"9781498217453","price":36.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/X0n5KqA3yJ9781498217453.webp?v=1777996352","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/messiah-in-weakness-a-portrait-of-jesus-from-the-perspective-of-the-dispossessed-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}