Bayani: A Filipino postcolonial heuristic device in understanding the Messianic role of Jesus of Nazareth

• Main Author: Pedregosa, Lawrence S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Postcolonialism; Heroes; Jesus Christ—Messiahship; Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6111; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=13026&context=etd_masteral
• Institution: De La Salle University

This theological investigation uses bayani as a heuristic device to understand the messianic role of Jesus of Nazareth from a postcolonial Filipino Christian context. Employing various postcolonial schools of thought in understanding Filipino Christian identity as a discourse, the study unearths the...