Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye (PhD, Harvard University) is a senior lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Auckland and a historian at the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is the author of Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar’s Ventures through Life, Death, Motherhood, and Cancer (Not Necessarily in that Order) (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and the BYU Maxwell Institute, 2019) and China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Christ and the Work of Suffering

by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye | undefined 36 | 04-10-2020

[Page 223]Abstract: Christ’s voluntary subjection to the horrible realities of this world transformed him forever. His vulnerability became his capacity to save and heal all humankind. Our own suffering develops our capacity for love, which is the power that makes us useful to others, and humility, which is the root of wisdom.

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