title: Asian Faces of Jesus (Faith and Cultures Series)
author: R.S. Sugirtharajah
description: Although Jesus was born in the western part of Asia, it was not until fifteen hundred years later that Asia experienced the full impact of Jesus' personality and teaching. Western missionaries, the primary transmitters of Christianity, left behind a Western understanding of Jesus. Today, Asians are seeking the face of the original Jesus - his Asian face. For them, all understanding of Jesus arise out of their particular contextual needs. Enriching the Western understanding of Jesus, Asians employ new interpretative resources, cultural symbols, and thought patterns as they make sense of Jesus for their own time and place. Part I focuses on "Jesus Amid Other Asian Ways, Truths and Lights". Part II presents "Newly Emerging Profiles of Jesus Amid Asia's Poverty and Religious Plurality". Contributors include Ovey N. Mohammed, Seiichi Yagi, Aloysius Pieris, Stanley J. Samartha, Michael Amaladoss, C. S. Song, Kosuke Koyama, Michael Rodrigo, Chung Hyun Kyung, and Sebastian Kappen.
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  [(title page) The Mystery of Jesus' Face](text00001_split_000.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](text00001_split_001.html#sigil_toc_id_00)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Frontispieces / Gallery**
  
  
  : 60 selected portraits of Jesus from ancient times to present times
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Chapter 1 : The origin of the general image of Jesus' face is of the Shroud
  of Turin?**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [■ In old times, he was considered an ugly
  man?](text00001_split_004.html#sigil_toc_id_1a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [■ Jesus' looks was of an Asian, who spoke common language Aramaic in West
  Asia?](text00001_split_004.html#sigil_toc_id_1b)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [■ He had a suitable appearance as a cheerful man, a drinker, a big eater and
  a fellow of rogues?](text00001_split_004.html#sigil_toc_id_1c)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [■ Why can we say that the style of Jesus' portraits with long hair and beard
  growing was born based on the negative image of the Shroud of
  Turin?](text00001_split_004.html#sigil_toc_id_1d)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [■ Does the Sudarium that St. Veronica