The term yin refers to the feminine energy of Taoism, in contrast to
the male yang. Author Hertig coined the word yinist in the 1990s to
name the nameless Asian American feminism. The yinist spirituality
she explores in this book is a novel attempt to lift up and empower
the voices of female Asian American voices in Christian ecological
theology and to effect their inclusion amid feminist, womanist, and
mujerista discourses.
This
innovative book is a valuable resource for scholars, churches, and
denominational leaders.
"Young
Lee Hertig's 'yinist' spirituality draws on the mutuality of
yin-and-yang pervasive in East Asian thinking to recover Hebraic
holism, Jesus's upside-down, basileia, and the Pauline ecclesiology
of weakness and marginality in order to revitalize theological
education and the North American church in our global twenty-first
century." --Amos Yong, professor of theology and mission, Fuller
Seminary