Dislodging Mundane Wisdom: The Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi and the New Testament Gospels

What will be done in the following paragraphs is an initial attempt to re-categorize some of the major kinds of interactions found in both the Inner Chapters of the Zhuāngzǐ [庄子] and the Four Gospels, especially as they point us toward choices that lead to counter-cultural expressions of wisdom and new forms of whole person cultivation. Afterwards, I will explore more systematically the nature of that transformative wisdom found in each text, and elaborate in more detail the linkage between choosing that alternative form of wisdom and its attendant expression in specific kinds of whole person cultivation. In this manner I hope to underscore the significance of all that has been accomplished by this comparative study, especially the innovative results that it has presented.