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Not Ruling Over but Feeding the Sheep
Thoughts on the Boundaries of Authority and Power in the Chinese Church
What type of church structure would be best for China’s churches? Considerations include China’s historical church governance, the church’s place in society and government, and how to handle situations of power abuse.
The Never Ending March
A Book Review
The Never Ending March: China’s Religious Policy and the Catholic Church by Sergio Ticozzi, preface by Stephen Baskerville. Hong Kong: Chorabooks, 2018, 183 pages. Shortly after the provisional accord on the nomination of bishops in China was announced by the Vatican and Beijing, Chorabooks released The Never Ending March. Now, two years later, with […]
Historical Context Matters
As we stop to listen, as we hear the Chinese people’s stories, as we discover for ourselves Chinese history, as we put ourselves in China’s shoes, the Chinese context and therefore their practices and worldview become more understandable.
The Tricolor Religious Market and the Growth of Christianity
The Great Awakening in China (3)
[…] mosques began to reopen. The number of Catholics grew to 5.3 million by 2010. The number of Protestants grew to more than 23 million by 2010. In 2018, there were nearly 40 million Protestants. Again, these are underreports by the party-state. Some independent scholars in China and outside China have reported higher estimates.1 One […]
Advantages and Challenges for Indigenous Researchers (2)
The Challenges
[…] sciences, historical research, and practical theology.” We echo the motivation “not only to write about church but also to write as church and for church.” Notes ^ Christopher B. James, Church-Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 11. ^ Ibid. Image credit: Chinese Gdn – thru window by Kathleen Conklin via Flickr.
Living Out Our Paul Moment
[…] in Guangzhou. The fact that so many people in China have never heard the name of Jesus is what drew me there in 2017 and again in 2018. My second stint in China was in the city of Chongqing, where I lived and served as part of a team there for a year. While […]
View From the Wall
Faith Going Public
Urban Christians and Civic Participation in China
Structural Overview Be fore 1949, both governmental and social organizations coexisted in Chinese society along with a primitive civil society. For example, in the cities, urban residents enjoyed some political and religious freedom because the Republican government was not very hostile to religion; many of their officials and military officials were baptized Christians. We […]
View From the Wall
A Field Study of “The Church of Almighty God” Cult
In early 201 3, China’s official media first labeled “Eastern Lightning,” more recently known as “The Church of Almighty God,” as a cult. Thus, the group entered the public arena and began to gain public awareness. However, due to the difficulties and risks involved in doing a field study of such a secretive organization, […]
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Eschatology and China’s Churches
[…] eschatology in a 1998 document, within the theology of the official Three-Self Church eschatology lacks a working category; it finds itself situated under communist ideology as any form of it appears to be a threat to the ideology of the government. The church in China must ask itself what biblical, orthodox eschatology is and […]