Christology and Pneumatology face many challenges today. Eight contributors four European and
four Asian theologians respond to some of these challenges. Christoph Schwöbel responds to the
challenge of fundamentalism and spiritualism through the renewal of the Trinitarian theology of
the Reformers Markus Mühling through a return to the concarnational Pneumatology of Thomas
Erskine. Hans-Joachim Sander meets the challenge of suffering and powerlessness through the
postmodern hermeneutics of heterotopia (Foucault) Lieven Boeve responds to that of skepticism
and pluralism through the hermeneutics of interruption. Lee Ki-Sang and Kim Heup Young address
the globalization of materialism and anthropocentrism through the respective retrieval of the
apophaticism and Christology of Ryu Young Mo increasingly noted today for his original
synthesis of Christianity Buddhism Confucianism and Daoism. Finally Lai Pan-Chiu and Anselm
Min engage in an East West dialogue Lai by comparing the Christian idea of deification and the
Neo-Confucian idea of self-cultivation Min the Trinity of Aquinas and the Triad of Zhu Xi.
This is a substantial timely and insightful contribution to Christology and Pneumatology in
the context of the many issues raised by globalization especially the need for serious East
West dialogue.
