Chinese Theology: Text and Context

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This major new study examines the history of Chinese theologies as they have navigated dynastic change, anti-imperialism, and the heights of Maoist propaganda In this groundbreaking and authoritative study, Chloë Starr explores key writings of Chinese Christian intellectuals, from philosophical dialogues of the late imperial era to sermons and micro blogs of theological educators and pastors in the twenty-first century. Through a series of close textual readings, she sheds new light on the fraught issues of Chinese Christian identity and the evolving question of how Christianity should relate to Chinese society. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION One From Missionary Writings to Chinese Christian Texts: An Introduction Two The Christian Imprint: The Shaping of Republican-Era Theology Three Zhao Zichen and a Creative Theology: The Life of Jesus (1935) Four The Public and Personal Faces of the Church: Xu Zongze’s Sui si sui bi and the Shengjiao zazhi (Revue Catholique) Five Wu Leichuan, Christianity and Chinese Culture, and the Kingdom of Heaven Six The Church and the People’s Republic of China Seven Ding Guangxun: Maintaining the Church Eight State Regulation, Church Growth, and Textual Profusion Nine Yang Huilin: An Academic Search for Meaning Ten Visible and Voluble: Protestant House-Church Writings in the Twenty-First Century Afterword NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX