Alexandrian School To Kwok Pui-Lan Analysis
Response of Alexandrian School to Kwok Pui-lan
The controversy of the divinity of Christ between Arians and Athanasius was concluded by the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325. However, other issues were raised newly to the Alexandrian school and the Antiochian school. The issue was the very how to affirm the full humanity of Christ and how to understand the unity of his divinity and humanity,” Their Christological debate has been settled by the Council of Chalcedon in A.D. 551. In the next, Iwill examine Alexandrian school’s affirmations in order to respond to a quoted sentence of Kwak Pui-lan, postcolonial theologian. Kwok Pui-lan noted in her writing, “The space between Jesus and Christ is unsettling and fluid, resisting easy categorization and closure.” What is the space she mentions? How Alexandrian school answers to Kwok Pui-lan? In addition, we will also examine its weak point or limitation of Alexandrian school. …show more content…
According to Kwok, the space between Jesus and Christ is the “contact zone or borderland between the human and divine.” Also she talks about Jesus/Christ as hybrid concept, “used cultural idioms, religious imaginations to articulate their own understanding of salvation and the role of Jesus Christ in the salvific process. In the view of the Alexandrians, this space and hybridized Jesus might be refused because if those are related to humanity of Jesus more rather than divinity of Christ, the Alexandrians would think that divine nature for salvation could be attacked. Then, the Alexandrians might ask Kwok. How many Jesus we have or Whose Jesus Christ is real? Is Jesus just a great prophet? I think that is a weakness of the Alexandria, not “resisting easy categorization and closure.” It might be hard to find Jesus who is living in the real local context such as Korean immigrants’ sufferings, people with developmental or physical disabilities, other marginalized people or community, and so
The controversy of the divinity of Christ between Arians and Athanasius was concluded by the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325. However, other issues were raised newly to the Alexandrian school and the Antiochian school. The issue was the very how to affirm the full humanity of Christ and how to understand the unity of his divinity and humanity,” Their Christological debate has been settled by the Council of Chalcedon in A.D. 551. In the next, Iwill examine Alexandrian school’s affirmations in order to respond to a quoted sentence of Kwak Pui-lan, postcolonial theologian. Kwok Pui-lan noted in her writing, “The space between Jesus and Christ is unsettling and fluid, resisting easy categorization and closure.” What is the space she mentions? How Alexandrian school answers to Kwok Pui-lan? In addition, we will also examine its weak point or limitation of Alexandrian school. …show more content…
According to Kwok, the space between Jesus and Christ is the “contact zone or borderland between the human and divine.” Also she talks about Jesus/Christ as hybrid concept, “used cultural idioms, religious imaginations to articulate their own understanding of salvation and the role of Jesus Christ in the salvific process. In the view of the Alexandrians, this space and hybridized Jesus might be refused because if those are related to humanity of Jesus more rather than divinity of Christ, the Alexandrians would think that divine nature for salvation could be attacked. Then, the Alexandrians might ask Kwok. How many Jesus we have or Whose Jesus Christ is real? Is Jesus just a great prophet? I think that is a weakness of the Alexandria, not “resisting easy categorization and closure.” It might be hard to find Jesus who is living in the real local context such as Korean immigrants’ sufferings, people with developmental or physical disabilities, other marginalized people or community, and so