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ISBN-10 :  0192536112 

ISBN-13 : 9780192536112

Author : Alexander Chow 

It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the last communist-run countries of the world: the People’s Republic of China. Yet it would be a mistake to describe Chinese Christianity as merely a clandestine faith or, as hoped by the Communist Party of China, a privatized religion. Alexander Chow argues that Christians in mainland China have been constructing a more intentional public theology to engage the Chinese state and society, since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Chinese Public Theology recalls the events which have led to this transformation and examines the developments of Christianity across three generations of Chinese intellectuals from the state-sanctioned Protestant church, the secular academy, and the growing urban renaissance in Calvinism. Moreover, Chow shows how each of these generations have provided different theological responses to the same sociopolitical moments of the last three decades. This study illustrates how a growing understanding of Chinese public theology has been developed through a subconscious intermingling of Christian and Confucian understandings of public intellectualism. These factors result in a contextually-unique understanding of public theology, but also one which is faced by contextual limitations as well. With this in mind, Chow draws from the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of theosis and the Chinese traditional teaching of the unity of Heaven and humanity (Tian ren heyi) to offer a way forward in the construction of a Chinese public theology.

Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity 1st Table of contents:

Part I. The Growing Public Voice of Christianity in China
1. A Tradition of Public Theology
Early Catholic Scholar-Officials
Intellectuals at the End of the Imperial Age
Christianity and the May Fourth Enlightenment
A Tradition Which Lives On
2. State-Sanctioned Protestantism
Religious Policy and the Unity of the Church
Christology as a Basis for Engagement
Developments in Chinese Society
A First Generation of Public Theology
3. Cultural Christianity
A Case for Cultural Christianity
Immanence and Transcendence
Religion and Modernity
A Second Generation of Public Theology
4. Urban Intellectual Christianity
The Changing Profile of Chinese Christianity
Resurrecting Calvin in China
Rights Defence and Calvinist Political Theology
Constructive Dialogue and Calvinist Ecclesiology
A Third Generation of Public Theology
Part II. The Development of a Chinese Public Theology
5. A Divided Public Space?
The Rise of New Leftists and Political Liberals
Confucianism in the Public Space
Confucian Imagination and Chinese Christianity
A Fluid Public Space
6. The Public as Transcendent
Tension Within the Secular–Sacred Divide
Humanism in the Confucian Imagination
The Public as Mystical
The Transcendent as Public and the Public as Transcendent
7. The Christian Family as a Public Body
The Public Nature of the Church
The Church Leader as a Public Intellectual
A Theology of Reciprocity
The Triune God and the Christian Family
Conclusion
Generational Shifts
Confucian Imagination
Public Theology and Mainland China
Appendix Biographical Briefs
Glossary: Chinese Terms and Phrases

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