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The Chinese Christianity collection is a comprehensive free online collection of Chinese theology and on Christianity in China, including material in Chinese as well in other languages relating to Chinese theology and Christianity. The online collection is a joint initiative from Globethics, Geneva, and Kingdom Business College, Beijing, China. The collection includes:
-Academic and scientific literature, including commentaries, theses/dissertations, educational documents, curricula etc.
-Collections of sermons, prayers, liturgical and worship material
-Biblical collections (commentaries, theology, handbooks etc.)
-Material from partner institutions, seminaries, universities, publishers, and/or content providers in China, Hong Kong SAR, and the United States, such as the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, the Hong Kong Baptist University, Yale Divinity School, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)
-Open access sources, harvested from Chinese open repositories
-Audio-visual materials including sermons, music, worship and Christian art, architecture, manuscripts etc.
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Migrations, Religions and Law: The Tradition of the “Nestorian” Church of the East (5th-21st Centuries)Religious regimes of normativity, pertaining to non-catholic traditions of Christianity, which are particular to the history of Asia, where they originated and throve between late antiquity and early modern age, provide a powerful testimony as to social, legal and cultural entanglements that cannot be acknowledged nor understood from the binary vision of the Kulturkampf between the “East” and the “West”. Case in point: the tradition of the “Nestorian” Church of the East, with its early spread eastward, from Mesopotamia and Persia to India and China, through all of Central Asia, long before the catholic and protestant missions of the late Middle Ages and the modern age (14th to 19th centuries), defies the paradigms of postcolonial analysis. Legal and liturgical multilingual documents and monuments of the Church of the East—born from the persecution of the followers of Nestorius and Theodore of Mopsuestia under the Roman rule, established in Eastern Mesopotamia as a self-standing denomination under the katholikós, since 410—, reflect an original and autonomous Christian culture, risen from heresy, independent from any papal or imperial agenda. Its bodies of theological doctrines and liturgical formularies, particularly its legal texts, reveal a transnational, non-exclusively confessional mindset, open to hybridization. Likewise, the legal and liturgical system of the Church of the East, developed over eight centuries through migrations, commerce, missional and literary activity (writing and translations) along the Silk Roads trade and knowledge network, provided governance and justice for Christians (and also non-Christians) belonging to many peoples in diverse territories. Built with a communal rather than institutional outreach, the tradition of “Nestorian” Christianity is a genuinely “Eastern” one. It survives among us, confirmed and reinforced in its jurisdictional and pastoral structures, but also misinterpreted and misplaced, as to its role in the context of the history of Asia. Challenged and hunted, it’s facing oblivion, dispersion and, eventually, annihilation.
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Christian liturgy : a Chinese catechism of celebratingCatechism is often perceived as the teaching of old-fashioned doctrines of faith or an authoritarian list of what religious leaders force us to believe. This catechism is a survival package of food called faith. It is fresh water from the source for the daily path of life and for orientation in decision-making. These four volumes of Chinese Catechisms transform the classical core texts of the Christian faith into today's living: the Creed (Vol. 1), the Lord's Prayer (Vol. 2), the Ten Commandments (Vol. 3), and the Liturgy as celebration of Life (Vol. 4). The author You Bin from Beijing offers it from a Chinese perspective as a contribution to intercultural theology. It is a gift to world Christianity and humanity. It is not a Lutheran, Reformed, Catholic, or Anglican Catechism; it is a post-denominational window for living. In this volume 4, the Lord's Prayer is interpreted from a Chinese background and wisdom. Its genius lies in its innovative synthesis of, on the one hand, the liturgy rooted in the ancient rites and traditions of China and, on the other, the ancient traditions of the Church in an ecumenical spirit.
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Cultural hybridization in christian China: The art of cloisonné at the service of GodProducción Científica
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Orta Asya’da Nestûrî Türklere ait mezar taşları ve kitabeler (XIII. ve XIV. yüzyıllar)Tarih boyunca Orta Asya coğrafyasında bulunan Türkler arasında birçok din kabul görmüş, Nestûrî Hristiyanlık inancı da bu kapsamda Orta Asya’da bulunan bazı Türk toplulukları tarafından benimsenmiştir. Hristiyanlığın Nestûrî mezhebini benimsemiş olan Türk topluluklarından günümüze ulaşan bazı arkeolojik ve epigrafik materyaller, araştırmacılara bu toplulukların dinî yaşamları hakkında fikir sahibi olma imkânını vermektedir. Bu açıdan söz konusu birincil kaynaklar, Nestûrî Türklerin dinî inancı hakkında bilgiye ulaşma konusunda kılavuz olma niteliği taşımaktadır. Tez çalışmamızının konusunu XIII. ve XIV. yüzyıllarda Orta Asya’da ve Çin’de yaşamış Nestûrî Türklere ait mezar taşları ve kitabeler teşkil etmektedir. Çalışmada güdülen amaç, bugüne kadar araştırmacılar tarafından bilim dünyasına kazandırılmış olan Süryani harfli mezar taşlarının toplu bir tetkikinin yapılmasıdır. Bu tez çalışmasında öncelikle tarihsel süreçte Orta Asya coğrafyasında Nestûrî Hristiyanlık inancının yayılması ve mezar taşlarının keşfedilme süreçleri hakkında ön bilgi verilmiş, sözü edilen inancın etkisiyle XIII. ve XIV. yüzyıllara ait Süryani alfabesi ile yazılmış Süryanice ve Türkçe mezar taşları transliterasyon (yazı çevirim) metodu kullanılarak toplu halde incelenmiştir. Çalışma içerisinde incelenen 871 adet mezar taşı tarihli, tarihsiz ve yazısız olacak şekilde ilgili coğrafyanın başlığı altında tasnif edilmiştir. Yayımlanmış mezar taşları Türkçe tercümeleriyle birlikte bir araya getirilmiş ve Orta Asya’da varlık göstermiş Nestûrî Türklerin XIII. ve XIV. yüzyıllardan günümüze ulaşan mezar taşları ile kitabelerinin müstakil bir derlemesi yapılmıştır.
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Han Christian Conversion in Taiwan: A Study of Presbyterian Converts from Traditional Chinese ReligionsDegree awarded: Ph.D. Religion and Culture. The Catholic University of America
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Relationship Building for Evangelism Among English Language Learners in ChinaThis empirical research revealed that relationship-building by missionaries among English language learners in China was a factor that facilitated their verbal communication of the gospel. For this study, I interviewed 15 missionaries who were identified by various leaders as being active in evangelism and who had shared the gospel with at least 10 Chinese people in the last year that they were on the field. Participants explained that they used the strategy of “funneling” interactions with Chinese individuals by narrowing down a large number of people with whom they had contact to a select few who were interested in spiritual conversation. This process led them to notice, explore, and capitalize on opportunities to verbally communicate the gospel. This qualitative study uses a grounded theory methodology to understand and explain the meaning that these missionaries attributed to their evangelistic activities. Study participants included 15 missionaries who currently work with Purposeful Teaching (pseudonym).
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De la nécessité du TianxiaTianxia est une forme politique née dans l’antiquité chinoise, mais qui est adaptée à notre temps, alors que la mondialisation, notamment technologique, bat son plein, et que les formes politiques issues de la modernité marquent leurs limites. Elle comprend « tout ce qui est sous le ciel », sans rien rejeter hors d’elle, contrairement aux traditions issues du monothéisme, notamment occidental.
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The Lord’s prayer : a Chinese catechism of prayingCatechism is often perceived as the teaching of old-fashioned doctrines of faith or an authoritarian list of what religious leaders force us to believe. This catechism is a survival package of food called faith. It is fresh water from the source for the daily path of life and for orientation in decision-making. These four volumes of Chinese Catechisms transform the classical core texts of the Christian faith into today's living: the Creed (Vol. 1), the Lord's Prayer (Vol. 2), the Ten Commandments (Vol. 3), and the Liturgy as celebration of Life (Vol. 4). The author You Bin from Beijing offers it from a Chinese perspective as a contribution to intercultural theology. It is a gift to world Christianity and humanity. It is not a Lutheran, Reformed, Catholic, or Anglican Catechism; it is a post-denominational window for living. In this volume 2, the Lords Prayer is interpreted from a Chinese background and wisdom. You may not agree with all, but you will certainly be inspired and empowered.
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Equipping Leaders for Discipling Public-School Adolescents in Chinese House Churches: A Mixed Methods StudyChinese adolescents who attend house churches play a vital role in growing the body of Christ and leading the church to flourish. Hence, the church must assist them to establish identities in Christ and achieve spiritual prosperity so that they will be able to grow unto Christlikeness. However, they are facing multiple challenges during the faith developmental process. One of the most prominent factors is Chinese public school education. Due to national educational law in China, students have little opportunity to avoid secular and anti-Christian teachings throughout their educational journey. Meanwhile, Chinese adolescents are experiencing identity crises under the impacts and challenges of social culture changes, technological development, and globalization. These factors urge educational leaders to provide proper guidance for adolescents’ psychological development and spiritual growth. However, because Chinese house church leaders lack professional training in the area of Christian education, they do not find themselves confident in disciplining adolescents in the church who go to public schools. The purpose of this sequential transformative mixed-method study is to develop a means of equipping Chinese Christian educational leaders so that they will be able to assist public-school adolescents to grow in wisdom and stature for the kingdom of Christ. To be more specific, this mixed methods study includes significant factors associated with Christian educational leadership development focusing on disciplining adolescents who go to Chinese public schools, while overlaying sequential procedures to develop a valid curriculum model for training Chinese urban house church leaders. The study involves a multi-phase process. In the first phase, a three-round Delphi study will be utilized to better discover the potential consensus among thirteen experts. The second phase will allow the expert panel to assess and provide feedback for the curriculum model through a survey. This curriculum should not only aggregate educational resources for churches but also serve as a resource for delivering professional training to educational ministry leaders.
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China's Christianity From Missionary to Indigenous ChurchIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction "China's Christianity" and the Ideal of a Universal Church -- Chapter 1 Christianity Along the Warpath: The Anti-Christian Movement in Shantou during the Eastern Expedition (1925) -- Chapter 2 Imaging Missions, Visualizing Experience: American Presbyterian Photography, Filmmaking, and Chinese Christianity in Republican China -- Chapter 3 The 1670 Chinese Missal: A Struggle for Indigenization Amidst the Chinese Rites Controversy -- Chapter 4 Sealing Fate and Changing Course: French Catholicism and Chinese Conversion -- Chapter 5 Testing the Limits of Proper Behavior: Women Students in and beyond the Weimar Mission Schools in Qingdao 1905-1914 -- Chapter 6 Father Leonard Amrhein, CP: Missionary Zeal and Shared Experience of Suffering and Compassion with Chinese Catholics in Wartime and Late Twentieth-Century China -- Chapter 7 Adjustment and Advocacy: Charles McCarthy, SJ, and China's Jesuit Mission in Transition -- Chapter 8 Indigenizing the Prophetess: Toward a Chinese Denominational Practice -- Chapter 9 The Making of a Chinese Church: As Lived by Chinese Christians -- Chapter 10 Rapid Progress and Remarkable Accomplishments: The Study of Christianity in China by a New Generation of Chinese Scholars -- Index
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The Ten Commandments : a Chinese catechism of livingCatechism is often perceived as the teaching of old-fashioned doctrines of faith or an authoritarian list of what religious leaders force us to believe. This catechism is a survival package of food called faith. It is fresh water from the source for the daily path of life and for orientation in decision-making. These four volumes of Chinese Catechisms transform the classical core texts of the Christian faith into today's living: the Creed (Vol. 1), the Lord's Prayer (Vol. 2), the Ten Commandments (Vol. 3), and the Liturgy as celebration of Life (Vol. 4). The author You Bin from Beijing offers it from a Chinese perspective as a contribution to intercultural theology. It is a gift to world Christianity and humanity. It is not a Lutheran, Reformed, Catholic, or Anglican Catechism; it is a post-denominational window for living. In this volume 3, the Ten Commandments are interpreted from a Chinese background and wisdom. You may not agree with all, but you will certainly be inspired and empowered.
