Decolonising Christology in Javanese mysticism: The representation of Isa in the Serat Centhini
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies August 28, 2026 Daud Darmadi, Juanda Juanda, Munatar Kause
The portrayal of Isa in Serat Centhini, a nineteenth-century Javanese literary encyclopaedia from the Surakarta court tradition, reveals a rich intertextual interaction between the Gospel tradition, Islamic theology, and Javanese mystical cosmology. This raises an important hermeneutical question concerning how Christology should engage with non-Western literary traditions that reinterpret...