China's Christianity
From Missionary to Indigenous Church
Published on 4. May 2017
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-90-04-34002-2 (ISBN)
Description
Among the assumptions interrogated in this volume, edited by Anthony E. Clark, is if Christianity should most accurately be identified as "Chinese" when it displays vestiges of Chinese cultural aesthetics, or whether Chinese Christianity is more indigenous when it is allowed to form its own theological framework. In other words, can theological uniqueness also function as a legitimate Chinese Christian cultural expression in the formation of its own ecclesial identity? Also central to what is explored in this book is how missionary influences, consciously or unconsciously, introduced seeds of independence into the cultural ethos of China's Christian community. Chinese girls who pushed "the limits of proper behaviour," for example, added to the larger sense of confidence as China's Christians began to resist the model of Christianity they had inherited from foreign missionaries.
Contributors are: Robert E. Carbonneau, CP, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Amanda C. R. Clark, Lydia Gerber, Joseph W. Ho, Joseph Tse-hei Lee, Audrey Seah, Jean-Paul Wiest, and Xiaoxin Wu.
Contributors are: Robert E. Carbonneau, CP, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Amanda C. R. Clark, Lydia Gerber, Joseph W. Ho, Joseph Tse-hei Lee, Audrey Seah, Jean-Paul Wiest, and Xiaoxin Wu.
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"(...) the book is well written and worth reading." Dave Keane, in: Journal of European Baptist Studies Volume 19.1 (2019)More details
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Language
Other
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
627 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-34002-2 (9789004340022)
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Person
Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. (2005), University of Oregon, is Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Chinese History at Whitworth University. He has published several monographs and articles on Christianity in China, including his most recent book, Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi (University of Washington Press, 2015).
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: China's Christianity' and the Ideal of a Universal Church
Anthony E. Clark
Chapter 1: Christianity Along the Warpath: The Anti-Christian Movement in Shantou during the Eastern Expedition (1925)
Joseph Tse-hei Lee
Chapter 2: Imaging Missions, Visualizing Experience: American Presbyterian Photography, Filmmaking, and Chinese Christianity in Republican China
Joseph W. Ho
Chapter 3: The 1670 Chinese Missal: A Struggle for Indigenization Amidst the Chinese Rites Controversy
Audrey Seah
Chapter 4: Sealing Fate and Changing Course: French Catholicism and Chinese Conversion
Anthony E. Clark
Chapter 5: Testing the Limits of Proper Behavior: Women Students in and beyond the Weimar Mission Schools in Qingdao 1905-1914
Lydia Gerber
Chapter 6: Father Leonard Amrhein, CP: Missionary Zeal and Shared Experience of Suffering and Compassion with Chinese Catholics in Wartime and late Twentieth-Century China
Robert E. Carbonneau
Chapter 7: Adjustment and Advocacy: Charles McCarthy, SJ, and China's Jesuit Mission in Transition
Amanda C. R. Clark
Chapter 8: Indigenizing the Prophetess: Toward a Chinese Denominational Practice
Christie Chui-Shan Chow
Chapter 9: The Making of a Chinese Church: As Lived by Chinese Christians
Jean-Paul Wiest
Chapter 10: Rapid Progress and Remarkable Accomplishments: Study of Christianity in China by a New Generation of Chinese Scholars
Wu Xiaoxin
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: China's Christianity' and the Ideal of a Universal Church
Anthony E. Clark
Chapter 1: Christianity Along the Warpath: The Anti-Christian Movement in Shantou during the Eastern Expedition (1925)
Joseph Tse-hei Lee
Chapter 2: Imaging Missions, Visualizing Experience: American Presbyterian Photography, Filmmaking, and Chinese Christianity in Republican China
Joseph W. Ho
Chapter 3: The 1670 Chinese Missal: A Struggle for Indigenization Amidst the Chinese Rites Controversy
Audrey Seah
Chapter 4: Sealing Fate and Changing Course: French Catholicism and Chinese Conversion
Anthony E. Clark
Chapter 5: Testing the Limits of Proper Behavior: Women Students in and beyond the Weimar Mission Schools in Qingdao 1905-1914
Lydia Gerber
Chapter 6: Father Leonard Amrhein, CP: Missionary Zeal and Shared Experience of Suffering and Compassion with Chinese Catholics in Wartime and late Twentieth-Century China
Robert E. Carbonneau
Chapter 7: Adjustment and Advocacy: Charles McCarthy, SJ, and China's Jesuit Mission in Transition
Amanda C. R. Clark
Chapter 8: Indigenizing the Prophetess: Toward a Chinese Denominational Practice
Christie Chui-Shan Chow
Chapter 9: The Making of a Chinese Church: As Lived by Chinese Christians
Jean-Paul Wiest
Chapter 10: Rapid Progress and Remarkable Accomplishments: Study of Christianity in China by a New Generation of Chinese Scholars
Wu Xiaoxin
Bibliography
Index