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China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture
Yang Huilin
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Description for China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture
Paperback. The possibility of Christianity in China Editor(s): Jing, Zhang. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Christian missionaries in China have been viewed as agents of Western imperialist values. Yang Huilin, leading scholar of Sino-Christian studies, has dedicated himself to re-evaluating the history of Christianity in China and sifting through intellectual and religious results of missionary efforts in China. Yang focuses upon local histories of Christianity to chronicle its enduring good. China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture illuminates the unexplored links between Christianity and Chinese culture, from Christianity and higher education in China to the rural acculturation of Christian ideology by indigenous communities. In a distinctly Chinese voice, Yang presents the legacy of Western missionaries in a new light, contributing greatly to now vigorous Sino-Christian theology.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781481300186
SKU
V9781481300186
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99-1
About Yang Huilin
Yang Huilin is Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, and Vice-President of Renmin University of China. He is the author of many works, including Theological Hermeneutics: Word of God & Words of Man, and recently co-editor of Sino-Christian Studies in China (Cambridge, 2006). He resides in Beijing, China.
Reviews for China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture
Yang's essays cover a remarkable range of thinking and one can only hope that, at a time when much of the scramble to establish links between Chinese and Western universities is unseemly, hasty and unattractive, this serious and intellectual voice is clearly heard and engaged with in both universities and beyond.
David Jasper, Glasgow University
Literature and Theology This is a significant book for Chinese academia that boldly interprets the Christian phenomena in a new way. It reverses the traditional bias against Christianity, and may in fact inaugurate a more open discussion about religion in general among Chinese in the future. Such profound insights touch upon the very nature of the Christian faith, and bear significance for all Christians, as well as nonbelievers, to rethink their relationship with Christianity. Altogether the book provides a valuable window for understanding Chinese Christianity.
Liang Chuanshan, Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies
Journal of Asia Adventist Seminary China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture is a brilliant book by a leading scholar, and deserves wide readership.
G. Wright Doyle
Church History and Religious Culture A vigorous and sophisticated cross-cultural discourse against the background of history, philosophy, religion, theology and hermeneutics
Xiaoli Yang
International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church An excellent collection of essays whose ideas should be the starting point for conversations in many disciplines.
John R. Stanley
Fides Et Historia Yang's work offers a refreshing and insightful commentary on Christianity in China, with its changing and growing intellectual engagement.
Thomas Harvey
Scottish Journal of Theology
David Jasper, Glasgow University
Literature and Theology This is a significant book for Chinese academia that boldly interprets the Christian phenomena in a new way. It reverses the traditional bias against Christianity, and may in fact inaugurate a more open discussion about religion in general among Chinese in the future. Such profound insights touch upon the very nature of the Christian faith, and bear significance for all Christians, as well as nonbelievers, to rethink their relationship with Christianity. Altogether the book provides a valuable window for understanding Chinese Christianity.
Liang Chuanshan, Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies
Journal of Asia Adventist Seminary China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture is a brilliant book by a leading scholar, and deserves wide readership.
G. Wright Doyle
Church History and Religious Culture A vigorous and sophisticated cross-cultural discourse against the background of history, philosophy, religion, theology and hermeneutics
Xiaoli Yang
International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church An excellent collection of essays whose ideas should be the starting point for conversations in many disciplines.
John R. Stanley
Fides Et Historia Yang's work offers a refreshing and insightful commentary on Christianity in China, with its changing and growing intellectual engagement.
Thomas Harvey
Scottish Journal of Theology