Transfiguration of Chinese Christianity: Localization and Globalization

Allan H. Anderson · Paul H. B. Chang · Fu-chu Chou · Ke-hsien Huang · Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen · Cheng-tian Kuo · Yun-hsuan Kuo · Peter Tze Ming Ng · David A. Reed · Ray Yun Wang

Nov 2018 · 政大出版社

About this ebook

Since Christianity was re-introduced to China in the early nineteenth century, Chinese Christianity has undergone a holistic “transfiguration” which both truthfully restores ante-Nicene Christianity and successfully adapts to the cultural contexts of Chinese and other societies. The theoretical and theological diversity of this book is consistent with that of traditional Chinese religious writings as well as that of the ante-Nicene fathers but may be deemed un-theoretical, un-academic, or un-theological by those theologians who received Western theological training, as that tends to be too hegemonic, emotionless, and archaic in the eyes of lay believers.

About the author

Cheng-tian Kuo is Distinguished Professor of the Political Science Department and Professor of the Graduate Institute of Religious Studies at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He specializes in religious politics. His major publications include Religion and Democracy in Taiwan and Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies (ed.).
Fu-chu Chou is Honorary Professor of National Central University in Taiwan. His recent major publications are related to Chinese translations of the Bible.
Sian-chin Iap is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. His research interests focus on Pentecostalism. One of his major works is Baptism in the Spirit: Lukan and Pentecostal Theology of the Holy Spirit (in Chinese).