Although this book attempts the important task of covering the history and development of a major theological movement in the non-western world, it is uneven in coverage and overall is disappointing. The book provides a summary history of minjung theology in the context of non-western theological movements, biographies of key figures, a discussion of the stages of the development of minjung theology, and a contemporary assessment of its status and future. The initial discussion of contextual theologies in the prologue is overly abstruse and complex for the general reader, and unnecessary and not deep enough for the specialist. The survey chapters of the origins of minjung thought are too short and general. However, the short foreword by the eminent minjung theologian David Kwang-sung Suh is concise and to the point. A strength of the first part of the book is the discussion of minjung art in the context of the theology of the movement and the socio-political circumstances of the time. This is an important contribution of the book. The biographies of five minjung theologians, however, are poorly done. They are not comprehensive enough in coverage and detail, and in some cases shallow in the interpretation of the theology of the person considered. The biographies appear to be based largely on interviews conducted in 1988 which have not been augmented sufficiently with more recent information or description. This is a shame because these biographies should have been a major contribution to scholarship on the history and development of the minjung theological movement. The author does discuss the ‘generations’ or stages of the development of the movement, but again he does not have a significant analysis of the trend(s) or concepts, or go into the subject at enough depth. Two maps are included in the book which, reproduced from well-known sources, are unattributed. It was not clear why these particular older maps were included in the work. Overall, the book is uneven, good only in parts, and, to this reviewer, a disappointment.