Chinese Christian witness: identity, creativity, transmission and poetics / edited by Xiaoli Yang and Daryl R. Ireland

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This groundbreaking book brings Chinese missiology to the forefront, offering a rare insider's perspective on the rise of Chinese Christianity. It explores the diverse expressions of the missionary impulse that have driven Chinese Christians for centuries-across continents and theological traditions-to share their faith with remarkable dynamism and impact. Interdisciplinary, intergenerational, interdenominational, and ecumenical in scope, this book showcases the depth and breadth of Chinese Christian witness in both local and global contexts. By delving into themes of identity, creativity, transmission, and poetics, it draws on unpublished data, archival sources, and rare images to offer fresh insights and perspectives. Readers will discover how Chinese literary pioneers, bold missionaries, and visionary artists are transforming individuals, cultures, and societies worldwide through their vibrant and enduring faith.

Contributors are: Tobias Brandner, Michel Chambon, Chen Yongtao, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Michael Copeland, Dao Zi, Aleksandrs Dmitrenko, Jacob Chengwei Feng, Gu Li'an, Hu Jie, Ji Jingyi, Jiang Yuanlai, John T.P. Lai, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lü Xiaomin, Grace Lung, Alex Mayfield, Dirk Moench, David Ng, Antoine Ren, Shi Wei, Joshua Dao Wei Sim, Jue Wang, Ye Weilin, and Xiaoli Yang"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents Acknowledgments:

Acknowledgments xi

List of Figures and Tables xiii

Notes on Contributors and Artists xiv

Introduction 1

Xiaoli Yang and Daryl R. Ireland

PART 1 Identity

1 Making the South Seas a “Chinese” Mission Field: Chinese Evangelical Missionaries to Southeast Asia, 1920s to 1950s 15 Joshua Dao Wei Sim

2 The Influence of Ideologies and Commitments on Mission: An Example from the Anti-Christian Movement 35 Jue Wang

3 Constructed Identities and Potent Imaginaries: A Missiological Reflection of Mainland Chinese Ethnic and Racial Identity in a Divided and Broken World 63 David H. F. Ng

4 Remaking the Church Catholic in Post-Maoist China: The Outward Movement of Chinese Catholics and Their Collaborations with the Paris Foreign Missions 79 Michel Chambon

5 “The Hatred in My Heart”: Challenges and Opportunities of Han Christian Identity in Engaging Uyghur Muslims 94 Michael L. Copeland

6 Internalized Oppression in Chinese Australian Christians and Its Mission Impact 111 Grace Lung 

PART 2 Creativity

7 Reshaping the Modern Chinese Literary Landscape: Chinese Christians’ Pioneering Attempts in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century 133 John T. P. Lai

8 Screening Faith and Family: Hong Kong Christian Cinema 156 Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

9 Chinese Theological Education in a Post-Denominational Era: The Example of Nanjing Union Theological Seminary 174 Chen Yongtao

10 Embedding the House of God: Confluences of Place, Mission, and Tradition in China’s Atypical Churches 197 Dirk U. Moench

11 Silent and Vocal: Christian Funerals, a Unique Way of Mission 214 Ji Jingyi PART 3 Transmission

12 The Chinese Orthodox Christians and Their Involvement in Church Life and Missionary Activities, 1858–1917 233 Aleksandrs Dmitrenko

13 Fighting for Souls in the Latter Rain: Eschatology and Early Chinese Pentecostal Witness 255 Alex R. Mayfield

14 Contextualizing Mission Radio: The Chinese Seventh-day Adventists in Hong Kong (1977–2003) 273 Christie Chui-Shan Chow

15 Chinese Overseas Missionaries: A Chinese Mission Century? 294 Tobias Brandner

16 From Inculturation to Interculturation: The Past and Future of Chinese Catholic Theology 313 Antoine Ren 

17 Missio Dei and the Universal Priesthood of All Believers: Watchman Nee and the Mission of the Local Church Movement 334 Jacob Chengwei Feng PART 4 Poetics

18 Chinese Christian Artists’ Reflections 357 Hu Jie, Gu Li’an, Jiang Yuanlai, Shi Wei, Dao Zi, Ye Weilin, and Lü Xiaomin

19 Lived Poetics of Contemporary Chinese Art: Remembering, Reimagining, and Responding 394 Xiaoli Yang

Jiben shenxue 基本神學 / Sheshan xiuyuan 佘山修院

Shenxue congshu 神學叢書 3

全人矩矱 Tseûen jìn keù hwŏ. The perfect man’s model….treatise on the teachings of the Holy Scripture, in 5 books, on unfeigned virtue, spiritual instruction, the Saviour, explanation of the law, theory of prayer, and the doctrine of Jesus true and self-evident. Cf. Wylie, Memorials, p. 57, no.11.

Renxing de duanlie yü mihe : Aikehate yü Mading Lude de shen ren guanxi xueshuo 人性的斷裂與彌合——埃克哈特與馬丁 · 路德的神人關係學說 =  Rupture of Existence Eckhart and Luther's Doctrine of the Divine-Human Relationship / by Liu Ziyin 劉子茵

Published in Guoxue yu xixue 國學與西學 = International journal of Sino-western studies, no.29 (2025) : 177-187.

Local access dig.pdf [Liu_Ziyin_Renxing_duanlie.pdf]

Abstract:

馬丁·路德的因信稱義常被視爲宗教改革的標誌學説，但其基本邏輯與背後所隱含的存在的斷裂在埃克哈特處就已初見端倪。本文擬對比埃克哈特和路德在這一基本邏輯上各自髮展出的神人關繫學説，探討二人學説中體現的古今之間的共通與殊異。首先，埃克哈特和路德都以倒空自我作爲救贖的前提，並將這一轉變與恩典相聯繫；但埃克哈特將捨棄自我的能力視爲靈魂中的聖道，路德則把之歸因爲外部律法的功用。其次，埃克哈特將上帝的臨在視爲持續內在的，神人結合是靈魂拋卻個性向根基處的回返；路德則強調基督以不可感知的神秘方式降臨在信心之中，是以他的臨在並不帶來人本性上的改變，反而導緻了靈魂內部的分裂。這一內在本質的斷裂在經驗世界的延伸，則導緻基督教緻力維持的內外存在之聯結與經驗世界的意義遭到了挑戰，並提供了一種思考存在與曆史的新方式。

Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith has long been recognized as the defining theological principle of the Reformation, but the underlying mechanism of salvation and the rupture of human existenceit entails can be traced back to the thought of Master Eckhart. In view of it, this paper aims to comparethedoctrines of Eckhart and Luther to explore their similarities and differences. First, both Eckhart andLutherregard self-denial as a prerequisite for salvation and associate this transformation with grace. However, whileEckhart traces it to the operation of rational faculty illuminated by grace, Luther attributes it to the functionofthe law that revealing human sinfulness. Secondly, whereas Eckhart understood the presence of Godasanongoing interior reality and viewed divine-human union as the soul’s return to its origin, Luther emphasizedthat Christ descends through faith in an imperceptible and mysterious manner. As a result, divine presence doesnot transform human nature but instead introduces a profound division within the soul. The extension of this rupturewithin the inner nature to the external world challenges the consistency between human’s inner andouterexistence, as well as the meaning of history that Christianity normally seeks to uphold, which thus introducesanovel way of viewing existence and history.

明末清初耶穌會思想文獻匯編 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China
Each fascicle includes complete series index (20 p.)

Local access dig.pdf. in folder: [Andrew Chung Series].

Xinkan Gewu qiongli bianlan 新刊格物窮理便覽 = Símbolo de la fe, en lengua y letra China. [Símbolo de la fe, Chinese] / Fabio Yu-chung Lee [Li Yuzhong 李毓中] ; Chen Zongren 陳宗仁 ; José, Regalado Trota ; José Luis Caño Ortigosa ; Shih Wen-cheng [Shi Wencheng 石文誠] ; Ng, Louis Ianchun [Wu Xinquan 吳昕泉] ; Mayor, Tomás [Thomas] 哆媽氏, d. 1612

本書現藏於奧地利國家圖書館，為西班牙道明會神父Thomas Mayor所寫，他為了向馬尼拉唐人宣揚天主教教義，在當地唐人的協助下，使用閩南語翻譯教義，並於1607年由唐人刻版印刷傳世。全書分成三卷，第一卷主要是講述當時西方的科學知識，第二卷是《聖經》故事，第三卷主要講述天主教的知識，並批評當時唐人的宗教信仰。全書具體呈現出大航海時代唐人與西班牙人在宗教、科學知識交流的過程與成果,為人類「世界記憶」(Memory of the World)的重要資產。

Language notes: Prefaces also in English; some text of facsimiles also in Spanish.

Facsimile of the copy held at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (call number Sin, 267). See further the entry in the Chinese Christian Texts Database (entry no. 000001013).

Zongjiaoxue tonglun xinbian 宗教學通論新編  Lü Daji zhu  呂大吉著

Only the second volume of the two volumes is present.  分為上下兩冊，只有下冊