Public Mission in a Pluralistic Social Context
Can the Malaysian Chinese Church shift from a community primarily concerned with its own survival to one that participates in the holistic mission of God and seeks the peace of this land?
匯集來自華人基督教處境的神學研究與反思,探討聖經、教義、教會傳統及當代教會面對的重要問題。
Can the Malaysian Chinese Church shift from a community primarily concerned with its own survival to one that participates in the holistic mission of God and seeks the peace of this land?
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.
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.
未來的神學對話,應當是一場真正全球性的對話——西方學者、非洲牧者、亞洲神學家、拉丁美洲的社會行動者,彼此平等地坐在同一張桌上。
然而,若我們真要從普世視野欣賞神學,當然就必須接觸其他語言中的神學。
當華人基督教越來越跨地域、跨語言,也越來越受遷移與政治複雜性形塑時,關於地方與歸屬的問題變得更難回答。對許多人而言,家不再只是一個地點。
猶記當我從神學院畢業時,教會期待我成為全時間的牧者,但是在我內心深處卻想往在嶺南大學的歷史研究領域深耕。
古今中外,從來沒有一套源自西方的「純正」、「正統」神學,能原封不動地移植到亞洲或非洲。
中國教會正逐漸從「信徒眾多」走向「思想成熟」,從「運動型增長」走向「制度與知識建構」。而這場轉變背後的催化劑,恰恰是近幾年中國趨緊的宗教政策。