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Heaven and Humanity in Unity: Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment
PhD Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011
This thesis explores various trajectories of contextual theology as they have developed in the two Chinese... more This thesis explores various trajectories of contextual theology as they have developed in the two Chinese enlightenments of twentieth and twenty-first century China. Drawing methodologically from the typological works of historian Justo González and the missiologists Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder, one of the main aims of this study is to map and evaluate the various types of Chinese theology. An analysis of three major Chinese Protestant representatives will identify the tendencies of each type, highlight the importance of a contextual theology in dealing with a context’s socio-political concerns and religio- philosophical tradition, and show a bias in Chinese theology towards Latin Christianity. This leads to the second major aim of the study to explore the usefulness of Eastern Orthodox category of theosis and related subjects in the Second Chinese Enlightenment. It will highlight the tendencies of Chinese philosophy and religion, inclusive of Chinese Protestantism, to exhibit many themes from Byzantine Christianity. It will also call attention to the potential usefulness of this other “Eastern” theology in China’s socio-political concerns. This study will conclude by discussing the possibilities of Eastern Orthodoxy in playing an important role in complementing and supplementing future developments of a Chinese contextual theology.
Daoist Spirituality
In Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, ed. Glen G. Scorgie (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 388-389.
In Search of the Third Space: Theological Anthropology in Eastern Orthodoxy and Sino-Christian Theology
Ching Feng, new series, 10.1-2 (2010-2011), forthcoming.
Protestant Ecumenism and Theology in China since Edinburgh 1910
Missiology: An International Review, forthcoming.
Ecumenical theology traditionally focuses on clarifying diverse opinions on core matters of the faith. But from its... more Ecumenical theology traditionally focuses on clarifying diverse opinions on core matters of the faith. But from its inception in China, ecumenism has been heavily influenced by its sociopolitical concerns. is article explores ecumenism’s goal of church unity in Chinese Protestantism since Edinburgh 1910. Two early attempts sought to speak to the concerns of foreign denominationalism and imperialism. In the 1980s, a third attempt occurred within the government- sanctioned church. is would be complicated by the prevalence of house churches and theological studies among secular academics. How does this trifurcation of Christian activity affect the goals of Chinese Protestant ecumenism?
Theological Reconstruction In The People's Republic Of China: The Christology Of Bishop K. H. Ting
Th.M. Thesis, Regent College, 2008.