Overview
- Advances a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the Chinese Church
- Examines Chinese Christianity from historical, sociological, cultural, and theological perspectives
- Explores how Chinese churches negotiate their urban identities amidst the complexities of globalization
Part of the book series: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue (PEID)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Missionary Encounters in China
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New Concerns and New Chinese Churches
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume explores Chinese Christianity—or Chinese Christianities—in a variety of forms and expressions, including those from outside the geopolitical boundaries of mainland China. Advancing a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Chinese churches, the essays collected here engage many historical, sociological, cultural, and theological contingencies. The collection includes historical discussions of the early-20th-century encounters of Protestant and Catholic missionaries in China and the rise of Christianity among Malaysian Chinese and British Chinese communities. Essays examine the thinking of K. H. Ting (or Ding Guangxun), often remembered for his leadership in the Three-Self Patriotic Movement in the 1980s–90s, by revisiting his earlier theology and approach to the Bible in the 1930s–50s. These retrospectives give way to contemporary explorations into how Chinese churches negotiate their urban identities amidst the complexities of globalization in Chengdu and Shanghai, as well as in Vancouver, Canada. Taken as a whole, this collection offers close examinations into various aspects of Chinese Christianity’s complex picture, helping readers to recognize the many shades and colors of the global Chinese Church.
Reviews
“Highlighted in a single volume is the heterogeneity of Chinese Christianity—as it is perceived and conceived by centers of power in London and the Vatican, as it morphs into distinct spaces in Shanghai, or as it reinvents itself as enclaves in
Malaysia, Vancouver, and the UK. Anyone dissatisfied with old linear models will welcome this complex yet more authentic account of Chinese churches. Not to be missed are the magisterial introduction and the hopeful afterword.”
— Sze-kar Wan, Professor of New Testament, Southern Methodist University
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexander Chow is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity.
Easten Law is Assistant Director for Academic Programs at Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC) at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecclesial Diversity in Chinese Christianity
Editors: Alexander Chow, Easten Law
Series Title: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73069-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73068-0Published: 28 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73071-0Published: 29 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73069-7Published: 27 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6591
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 224
Topics: Ecclesiology, Asian Culture