Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude: A Comparative Theology for the Democracy of Creation

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INDEX active force: Laozi, 53; receptive force and, 43–4 activity: creativity, 85, 101; pattern, 114–15; pattern’s capacity to act, 108–9 actual entities: concrescence, 84; concrescence , dipolar nature of God and, 98–9; concrescence, three phases, 86; as drops of experience, 86; eternal objects, 87; eternal objects in concrescence, 88–9; nexus, 84–5; particle physics and, 84; self-creative autonomy, 87–8, 91–2; self-creative autonomy, concrescence and, 92; subjective aims, 86, 91–2; subjective form, 86; subjects, 85–6; as subject-superjects, 92–3; superjective phase, 87 actuality: of creation, 130–1; of kingdom of God, 125 agency: of God, 9; of Spirit, creaturely agency and, 118 anarchy, Daoism, 59–60 Appended Remarks (Classic of Change), 44–5; Change, 45; the Way and the vessel, 45–6. See also Classic of Change Asad, Talal, definition of religion, 24–5 Asian theologies: as contextual theology, 20; decolonizing theology of spirit as comparative theology of spirit-qi, 33–41; indigenization, 15–16; local theologies, 15–16 Asian women, colonialism and, 20 asymmetric ignorance, 26 awakening and cutting (Moon), 254–5 Beijing capture, 2 being so of itself, the Way, 49–50 binary of receptive and active forces, 43–4; Laozi, 53, 55 biopolitical production, 247–8 Catholic Christianity, in Korea, 3. See also Christianity Change/Way/Spirit of Great Ultimate, 199–210 chaophilia, 245 chaophilic paradigm, Daoism, 58–61 chaophobia, Western theism and, 59 chaos, the Way and, 47–8 chaoskampf, 58 chaosmos, 34, 173; Great Ultimate and, 39–40; virtual Ideas in, 192–8 chaotic indeterminancy of all figures, 177 chaotic multiplicity, 172 Cheng Hao, life-giving intention, 149–50 Cheng Yi: Nongmun on, 159–60; Zhu Xi and, 70–1 Chidester, David, definition of religions, 28 China, Christian missionary activity, 2–3 Choe Je-u. See Su-un Christ: kingdom of God and, 124–5; martyrdom, 125–6; Prince of Peace, 12–13; resurrection made theological, 127; significance of, 126; trinitarian logic of life and death, 128 Christian identity, comparative theology and, 26–7 354 Index Christian missionaries, Beijing capture, 2–3 Christian narrative, thinking and, 123 Christian theology: comparative theology and, 22–3; East Asian religions and, 14; Eastern Learning (Donghak) comparison , 5; Hindu thought parallels, 28; Holy Spirit, Ultimate Energy/Lord Heaven and, 7–8; imperial Christianity, 12–13; intratextuality and, 23–4, 26; Trinity, 9–10; universal category of religion and, 25. See also Catholic Christianity christology, Hegel, 124–5 circles of convergence, eternal objects, 176–7 Classic of Change: Appended Remarks, 44–5; pattern and, 66. See also Appended Remarks (Classic of Change Clooney, Francis: comparative theology and, 22–4; Hindu God, Christian God, 28–9; postliberal theology, 23–4 code, intercultural hermeneutics, 35 colonialism: Asian women, 20; cultural identity and, 19; subalterns, 19 colonization: hierarchy and, 18–19; inculturating theologies, 16 comparative theology, 14; Christian identity and, 26–7; Christian tradition in, 22–3; Clooney, Francis, 22–4; contextualization, liberation, 32–3; differences within traditions, 28; Fredericks, James, 22–4; home tradition and, 23–4; increase in, 22; interreligious relations and, 24, 27–8; metaphor and, 27; Nicholson, Hugh, 26; outsiders within, 29; power differences, neutralizing, 29–32; recognition, 31; religions classics and, 31; religious others, engaging, 28 concrescence, 37; creative activity as lure, 92–3; actual entities, 84; actual entities, dipolar nature of God and, 98–9; actual entities, eternal objects and, 88–9; actual entities, three phases, 86; actual entities as subject-superjects, 92–3; eternal objects, endowment, 91–2; eternal objects, potentiality and, 90–1; reality as, 83–8 concrete totalities, religions as, 25–6 Confucianism: Daoism and, 59, 64–5; Dong Zhongshu, 64–5; ritualized behavior and, 59; Son of Heaven, 62; Su-un and, 7; Zhou dynasty and, 62. See also Kongzi; Mengzi (Mencius) Confucius. See Kongzi consequent nature of God, 95–7 contextual theologies, 14, 18–19; Asian theology as, 20; Christian, postcoloniality and, 21–2; postcoloniality, 20–1; religious syncretism and, 21–2 contextual-political theology, 32–3 contextualization: inculturation liberation, 21; liberation, comparative theology and, 32–3 convergence, eternal objects and, 176–8 creatio ex nihilo, 58; Neville, Robert C., 206–7; Neville, Robert C., Keller and, 207–8 creatio ex profundis: Keller, Catherine, 202–3; Keller, Catherine, Neville and, 207–8 creation: actuality of, 130–1; God the Father’s relationship to, 12; process of, entities, 84; spirit and, 8 creativity: activity, 85; concrescence, 37; Great Ultimate and, 179–80; heart-mind and, 167–73; matter and, 85; neutral stuff...