A Reading Guide to Chinese Public Theology
Resources for Chinese Public Theology
汇集来自华人基督教处境的神学研究与反思,探讨圣经、教义、教会传统及当代教会面临的重要问题。
Resources for Chinese Public Theology
The thoughtful and wide-ranging contributions in this issue of ChinaSource Journal are particularly relevant to where China’s church finds itself today.
The public witness of the church is not to win political power or cultural hegemony in this “competition of gods.” Rather, it is to imitate Christ, seeking the peace of the city in exile, living out embodied love in the virtual, and witnessing to the eternal kingdom in suffering.
By looking not only at the church in China itself but also to Christian communities in the global Chinese diaspora, these scholars offer both cautionary tales as well as hopeful visions of what it means to be a witness to the “public God.”
The Chinese diaspora in Europe is transitioning from being a “mission field” (the recipient of gospel activity) to a burgeoning “mission force” (the agent of missional change).
Long before the word “Trinity” was rendered into Chinese as sanwei yiti (三位一體), Christians in Tang China were already searching for language to express the mystery of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We must move toward a global dialogue where the Western scholar, the African pastor, the Asian theologian, and the Latin American activist sit together as equals.
然而,若我们真要从普世视野欣赏神学,当然就必须接触其他语言中的神学。
When people who have long been studying, teaching, pastoring, and serving in different contexts finally sit in the same room, what becomes visible?
犹记当我从神学院毕业时,教会期待我成为全时间的牧者,但是在我内心深处却想往在岭南大学的历史研究领域深耕。
The universalizing claims of the Gospel about an unchanging God are spoken of in tension with the subjectivizing conditions of our lives in an ever-changing world.
The Chinese church is gradually moving from numerical breadth to intellectual maturity—from movement-driven growth to the building of institutions and a knowledge tradition.