we are living in an more and more worldwide, interconnected, and interdependent international, within which a variety of kinds of systemic imbalance in energy have given start to a becoming call for for real pluralism and democracy. As befits a global so interconnected, this publication provides a comparative theological and philosophical try and build new underpinnings for the assumption of democracy via bringing the Western thought of spirit into discussion with the East Asian nondualistic and nonhierarchical proposal of qi.

The e-book follows the ancient adventures of the belief of qi via a few of its Confucian and Daoist textual histories in East Asia, regularly Laozi, Zhu Xi, Toegye, Nongmun, and Su-un, and compares them with analogous conceptualizations of the last word inventive and religious energy present in the highbrow constellations of Western and/or Christian thought—namely, Whitehead’s Creativity, Hegel’s Geist, Deleuze’s chaosmos, and Catherine Keller’s Tehom.

The e-book provides to the transforming into physique of pneumatocentric (Spirit-centered), panentheistic Christian theologies that emphasize God’s freeing, equalizing, and pluralizing immanence within the cosmos. in addition, it injects into the theological and philosophical discussion among the West and Confucian and Daoist East Asia, which has heretofore been ruled via the yank pragmatist and method traditions, a clean voice formed through Hegelian, postmodern, and postcolonial inspiration. This enriches the ways that the pluralistic and democratic implications of the proposal of qi can be articulated. additionally, via supplying a beneficial creation to a few consultant Korean thinkers who're principally unknown to Western students, the e-book advances the examine of East Asia and Neo-Confucianism specifically.

Last yet now not least, the publication presents a version of Asian contextual theology that pulls at the non secular and philosophical assets of East Asia to provide a imaginative and prescient of pluralism and democracy. A reader drawn to the dialog among the East and West in gentle of the worldwide fact of political oppression, monetary exploitation, and cultural marginalization will locate this ebook informative, attractive, and enlightening.