Messiah in Weakness: A Portrait of Jesus from the Perspective of the Dispossessed

Yung Suk Kim

Messiah in Weakness: A Portrait of Jesus from the Perspective of the Dispossessed
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cascade Books
Country
United States
Published
27 May 2016
Pages
156
ISBN
9781498217453

Messiah in Weakness: A Portrait of Jesus from the Perspective of the Dispossessed

Yung Suk Kim

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Yung 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.

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