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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
[…] the Japanese invasion in the 1930s to protect their congregations and lost their lives as a result. Swells is right, of course, that a focus on the numbers of converts was always misplaced; the focus should always be on the faithfulness and integrity of those who do convert, not on whether they are numerous […]
Supporting Article
Synthesizing East and West
Wu Jingxiong’s Lasting Contribution to Chinese Christianity
[…] his discovery that the East and West contained the complementary but opposite elements that all originate in God, expresses what St. Paul writes about Jesus in Colossians 1:19-21: For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in […]
The Nitty Gritty of China’s Social Credit System
[…] Digital Dystopian Dictatorship | Foreign Correspondent (27:14) China’s "Social Credit System" Has Caused More Than Just Public Shaming (5:44) SOTN Episode 6: China's Social Credit System ( 1:14:52) At around 2:25, the video reiterates a key idea about the social credit system: “It works because people want to save face.” Notes ^ For an […]
China’s Reforming Churches Rising to Today’s Challenges
[…] countless places,” Daniel Bays observes, “Christians were put through such abuse that many did not survive the ordeal.”27 Yet, he continues, it appears “that Protestants increased their numbers by a factor of five or six” during the dark decade of the Cultural Revolution. This “very rapid growth rate” translates into roughly “five to six […]
“Theological Reflections on Urban Churches in China”
A Reformed Theologian Responds
Christianity, or some version of it, was introduced to China nearly 1,400 years ago—just after Augustine of Canterbury’s papal mission to England in 597. That historical nugget, recently noted by Promise Hsu here, never ceases to amaze me. Neither does the role Christianity has played in China’s modern history or the fecundity of evangelical […]
Book Reviews
The Many Facets of China’s Catholic Church
Caution, Confidence, and Conviction
[…] New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 176 pages. Hardcover, ISBN-10: 9811516782; ISBN-13: 978-9811516788. Available from Amazon. When Pope John Paul II canonized 120 martyrs of China on October 1, 2000, he recalled the words, which are often quoted by Chinese Catholics themselves, of the early Church father Tertullian: “the blood of the martyrs is the […]
Saving God’s Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation through Honor and Shame
EMS Dissertation Series
Years ago, the author had a startling realization. Theologians and pastors have long taught on the glory of God and its central importance in the Bible. However, because he was living in East Asia, it also dawned on the author that this sort of talk about God’s glory, praising Him, and magnifying His name was simply another way of talking about honor and shame.
Editorials
Rising on a New Tide
[…] countless places,” Daniel Bays observes, “Christians were put through such abuse that many did not survive the ordeal.”2 Yet, he continues, it appears “that Protestants increased their numbers by a factor of five or six” during the dark decade of the Cultural Revolution. This “very rapid growth rate” translates into roughly “five to six […]