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A collection of essays exploring issues of identity and the global church in the post-colonial era, from the perspectives of Chinese and American evangelicals.
Is the Church merely a Western institution? Where does Christianity fit in with Chinese identity? Does Chinese Evangelism detract from Chinese culture? This collection of essays addresses Christian Evangelism within a historical context to China's diverse character, and explores prejudices and reactions to the evangelical movement throughout China. The contributors of this volume are committed to the belief that evangelicalism continues to have the historical assets and intellectual, hermeneutical and theological, tools able to contribute to the global church.
Is the Church merely a Western institution? Where does Christianity fit in with Chinese identity? Does Chinese Evangelism detract from Chinese culture? This collection of essays addresses Christian Evangelism within a historical context to China's diverse character, and explores prejudices and reactions to the evangelical movement throughout China. The contributors of this volume are committed to the belief that evangelicalism continues to have the historical assets and intellectual, hermeneutical and theological, tools able to contribute to the global church.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 256
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
26 April 2012
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780718892579
Format: Paperback
This volume helpfully outlines some ways in which imperial readings of the Bible and Christian history have led to the inexcusable importation of Western divisions into Chinese church life.
— Lawrence Braschi
[David Pao's work] opens a way to overcome missionary paralysis for fear of propagating or capitulating to neo-colonialism.
— Beau Pihlaja
After Imperialism is good in pointing out the pietistic and dispensational views of many of the unregistered churches and the false Western expectation that the growing church in China has political democracy as part of its vision.
— Ray Porter
— Lawrence Braschi
[David Pao's work] opens a way to overcome missionary paralysis for fear of propagating or capitulating to neo-colonialism.
— Beau Pihlaja
After Imperialism is good in pointing out the pietistic and dispensational views of many of the unregistered churches and the false Western expectation that the growing church in China has political democracy as part of its vision.
— Ray Porter
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Richard R. Cook and David W. Pao
Abbreviations
1 Modern Evangelicalism and Global Christian Identity: Promise and Peril as Seen through the Eyes of a North American Church Historian / Douglas A. Sweeney
2 Missions, Cultural Imperialism, and the Development of the Chinese Church / Ka Lun Leung
3 Overcoming Missions Guilt: Robert Morrison, Liang Fa, and the Opium Wars / Richard R. Cook
4 Chinese Evangelicals and Social Concerns: A Historical and Comparative Review / Kevin Xiyi Yao
5 The Old Testament in Its Cultural Context: Implications of 'Contextual Criticism' for Chinese and North American Christian Identity / K. Lawson Younger Jr.
6 'Holy War' and the Universal God: Reading the Old Testament Holy War Texts in a Biblical-Theological and Postcolonial Setting / Tremper Longman III
7 'Holy War' and the Universal God: Reading the New Testament Conquest Accounts in a Postcolonial Setting / David W. Pao
8 The Group and the Individual in Salvation: The Witness of Paul / Frank Thielman
9 Boundaries in 'In-Christ Identity': Paul's View on Table Fellowship and Its Implications for Ethnic Identities / Maureen W. Yeung
10 'Who Am I?' Theology and Identity for Children of the Dragon / Robert J. Priest
11 Chinese Contextual Theology: A Possible Reconstruction? / David Y. T. Lee
12 Forging Evangelical Identity: Integration of Models of Theological Education in the Global Context / Carver T. Yu
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Richard R. Cook and David W. Pao
Abbreviations
1 Modern Evangelicalism and Global Christian Identity: Promise and Peril as Seen through the Eyes of a North American Church Historian / Douglas A. Sweeney
2 Missions, Cultural Imperialism, and the Development of the Chinese Church / Ka Lun Leung
3 Overcoming Missions Guilt: Robert Morrison, Liang Fa, and the Opium Wars / Richard R. Cook
4 Chinese Evangelicals and Social Concerns: A Historical and Comparative Review / Kevin Xiyi Yao
5 The Old Testament in Its Cultural Context: Implications of 'Contextual Criticism' for Chinese and North American Christian Identity / K. Lawson Younger Jr.
6 'Holy War' and the Universal God: Reading the Old Testament Holy War Texts in a Biblical-Theological and Postcolonial Setting / Tremper Longman III
7 'Holy War' and the Universal God: Reading the New Testament Conquest Accounts in a Postcolonial Setting / David W. Pao
8 The Group and the Individual in Salvation: The Witness of Paul / Frank Thielman
9 Boundaries in 'In-Christ Identity': Paul's View on Table Fellowship and Its Implications for Ethnic Identities / Maureen W. Yeung
10 'Who Am I?' Theology and Identity for Children of the Dragon / Robert J. Priest
11 Chinese Contextual Theology: A Possible Reconstruction? / David Y. T. Lee
12 Forging Evangelical Identity: Integration of Models of Theological Education in the Global Context / Carver T. Yu