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The Challenges and Opportunities for Christianity in Contemporary China
HUANG, Paulo
HUANG, Paulo
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This article contains five main topics. Firstly, the aim is to briefly describe the number of chnstians and the characteristics of Christian development in China through four periods. Secondly, the aim is to describe the characteristics of the contemporary Chinese context through a metaphor constructed by me for this purpose. It is of a flying dragon with one-head-twow'ings— four-feet and one.tail. Thirdly, the aim is to explore three challenges and opportunities hy olescribing the legislative li tions to the “selfish wild horse oi capitalism" and the Levithan oi Bureaucracy. This is done by using the metaphors of rope and cage. The role oi Christianity within the contemporary secular and humanistic society is also discussed with the aid oi a metaphor, that oi a “rescuing pill". Finally, the article has tocuseti on the challenges and opportunities for Christianity in contemporary China through an analysis of political theology. cultural theology (especially identity) and humanistic theology (especially as related [0 Christianity’ s pragmatic and secular functions in contemporary China).
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2013
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