ABSTRACT
A Chinese born in Taiwan in 1929, Choan-Seng Song has spent the greater part of his life in the West, first as a graduate student in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and then as associate director of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, and currently as Professor of Theology and Asian Cultures at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, US A. Choan-Seng Song is certainly the most prolific Chinese theologian outside of China and arguably the most influential as well. This chapter situates Song's Christology within the context of his method of inculturation and examines his use of Chinese sources to construct a theology for the Chinese. It describes the development as well as the salient features of Song's Christology, and evaluates Song's Christology, especially from the perspective of Roman Catholic theology.
