Dr. Zha Changping is a critic and biblical scholar based in Chengdu. He teaches New Testament at Sichuan University’s Center for Christian Studies, with research interests in art criticism, biblical studies, and the logic of history.
He holds a PhD from Renmin University of China, an MA in aesthetics from Sichuan Normal University, and a BA in Japanese Language and Literature from Sichuan University. He works with English, Japanese, Greek, and Hebrew sources.
Dr. Zha’s major works include The Logic of Japanese History (1995); History and Logicand The Cultural Logic of Humanitology (2007); Introduction to the Logic of the New Testament World-Picture, vol. 1 (2011); The Humane Thinking of Contemporary Arts (2008); A History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art (two volumes, 2017); Humanist Criticism of Contemporary Art (2019); and Ecological Art in Humanist Criticism (2021). He has also translated Christianity and Western Thought, vol. 1, and other works on Christianity and modern Japanese society.
My experience of the election and grace of the Triune God—the providential care of the Heavenly Father, the guarding of the Holy Spirit, and the guidance of the Holy Son—is truly a testament to what John Newton described as Amazing Grace in his hymn: “grace appeared the hour I first believed.”
I gradually came to understand the deeper meaning of the Lord’s words over the years: those who trust in him are able, through him, to stand upright.
Reason revealed my limits; grace taught me to bow down.