ABSTRACT
While insisting on the universality of the Kingdom of God and its accessibility beyond the confines of the Church, the Asian bishops have also been insisting on the primacy of Christ and the Gospel to the Christian Faith. Thus, for Asians, the face of Christ in Asia is one “born of woman,” one “who pitches his tent among us,” and one who “empties himself to be in solidarity with the little ones, those treated as nonpersons - the poor and deprived, the outcast and marginalized, the oppressed and downtrodden, the sick, those who do not count, children and women.” This is also the Christ who “breaks down social barriers,” who “challenges religious exclusivism,” and who “announces a radically new worshiping of God.” It is the Christ who “forgives and reconciles”; and who is “the person of harmony,” the person of “peace”.
