China’s God-Shaped Vacuum
...the photo of an old Taoist priest, perhaps recently released from prison, burning incense. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was witnessing the beginning of the religious revival...
...the photo of an old Taoist priest, perhaps recently released from prison, burning incense. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was witnessing the beginning of the religious revival...
I am happy to welcome my longtime friend and colleague Joann Pittman, ChinaSource Senior Vice President, to the Lantern this month! Joann oversees partnership development and has been instrumental in...
...fiction. In book after book, Chinese readers learned to expect that a spiritual genius would reject the normal world because he understands higher things, while the normal world would, alas,...
...most wanted. Perhaps one part of the field is more difficult than another. I an equally unfit for any, but through Thy strengthening me, I can do all things…enable me...
...much longer pedigree in Chinese history.2 In his latest book This Suffering is My Joy, China historian D. E. Mungello offers a brief study of the Catholic Church in China...
...used as a self-paced guide or in a facilitated (work or academic course) environment. The book enables readers to encounter and confront culture head on, to interact with and respond...
As Joann Pittman skillfully conveys in her new book, The Bells Are Not Silent: Stories of Church Bells in China. the church bells of China provide a valuable—and until now, largely...
...“Chinese” theology will not be “systematic.” Without disparaging the value of the book for scholars in the Western academy, I must altert potential readers to a few aspects of it:...
...scholarly biographies or introductions, which is understandable. Even with these caveats, I highly recommend this book to laypeople and students. Readers will gain firsthand experience by diving into a primary...
...strategists, and many may not want to use their time in reading this book. Then again, for readers mature in their faith, there may be worthwhile gains. The first gain...
...I highly recommend Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity to scholars of Chinese Christianity. For a more detailed overview of this book, go to Global China Center. Editor's note: Our thanks...
...vast majority of Chinese Christians to still focus on personal piety and on an explicitly disengaged relationship with the sociopolitical context” (p. 9). As the book shows, the social positions...