Son of man

Son of man

by Mun-yŏl Yi
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One of the greatest living Korean writers here details the quest of a young seminary student seeking transcendence, running through many Western and East Asian theologies in the process.

Format
242 pages
First published
2015

I spent a few years of my life long ago reading Christian Gnostic texts, particularly the ones in the Coptic Nag Hammadi library. I discovered in the process that one of the things they would do to make their teachings more accessible was to convert tracts into dialogs (often called "gospels") by reifying the roles of teacher and student (or more often groups of students) and casting the doctrines in the form of questions (by the students) and answers (by the teacher).

"He was tired of our god who never smiled or grew angry, who was never happy or sad, who never rebuked or praised; he came to think that actions disengaged from any notion of good or evil - evil without punishment, and good without reward- were all equally hollow." Book 20 in the praiseworthy Dalkey Library of Korean Literature, and my favourite so far.

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