China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture (Studies in World Christianity) - Softcover

Huilin Yang (author), David Lyle Jeffrey (Foreword By) & Zhang Jing (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481300180 ISBN 13: 9781481300186

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

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 "

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 "

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 "

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 "

An excellent guide to study the nature and aims of Sino-Christian theological studies

--Jan A.B. Jongeneel "Exchange "

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 "

In his book China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture, with a fine scholarship in listing Chinese learning and the main Western contemporary theological positions, the prominent mainland Chinese scholar Yang Huilin shows appreciation for the approach of enculturation of Christianity into the secular context which is dominant in China today.

--Mark Chuanhang Shan "Africanus Journal "

An excellent collection of essays whose ideas should be the starting point for conversations in many disciplines.

--John R. Stanley "Fides Et Historia "

...this essay collection offers a useful introduction to the intellectual contours of China's cultural Christians in the post-Tiananmen era, and should appeal to scholars interested in Chinese theology and interreligious religious dialogue

--Joseph Tse-Hei Lee "Journal of Chinese Religions "

About the Author:

David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Baylor University. He is the author or editor of more than 12 books including Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture .

About this edition

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1481300180
• ISBN 13: 9781481300186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272