Chinese Theological Review
Chinese Theological Review: Volume 21
This issue of the Chinese Theological Review features articles from the recently held 8th Joint National Conference of the Standing Committees of the China Christian Council and Three-Self Patriotic Movement of Protestant Churches in China (CCC/TSPM), which met in Beijing in January, 2008.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 20
In China, women are increasingly prominent in leadership positions in the churches, something which is unique in Protestant churches in East Asia. This volume highlights this trend with a selection of essays and a sermon by these women theologians. They represent different generations of leadership in the Chinese church and they are writing in a variety of disciplines. The need for a clearer and stronger Chinese Christian identity, articulated theologically and understood practically by ordinary Christians, emerges in many of these essays.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 19
The essays in this volume reflect the serious concern of Chinese theologians, young and old, to come to terms with the church's role in society. They are concerned about the relationship between faith and theology, and between Christ and culture, reflecting on the role of the church in the larger society. they ponder how to educate a new generation of Christian intellectuals and church leaders.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 18
(Published 2004) This volume of the Chinese Theological Review continues an emphasis on the movement for theological reconstruction. The essays frequently center on the ability of the Church to respond to changes in society brought about by economic growth and the policies of reform and opening.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 17
(Published 2003) Nanjing Union Theological Seminary celebrated its 50th anniversary 31 October- 1 November, 2002. Both church and government leaders and many overseas guests at the celebration struck the theme of theological reconstruction, which Bishop Ting described as adapting theological thinking to social changes.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 16
(Published 2002) The 7th National Chinese Christian Conference met in Beijing May 22-27, 2002. At the Conference, new leaders were chosen for both national bodies. Rev. Cao Shengjie was elected President of the CCC, the first woman ever to hold the office, and Elder Ji Jianhong was chosen to be Chairperson of the TSPM. As materials were being prepared for this 16th issue of the Chinese Theological Review, many documents of the Conference had not yet been made available, but the Work Report of the outgoing Standing Committees as well as the revised constitutions are included here.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 15
(Published 2001) A great deal continues to be written on the need for and importance of theological reconstruction or renewal in the Chinese Protestant Church. Many of the essays included in this issue relate this to various aspects of the church's life. Wang Aiming, commenting on the nature and purpose of the movement, notes that its significance is theological and ecclesiological, as well as social and political. Other articles explore the nature of theology and how theology changes in response to social change.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 14
(Published 2000) The call for theological reconstruction can be seen as a renewed effort to divest Chinese theological thinking of received viewpoints imported by conservative foreign missionaries in the 19th and 20th centuries. Church leaders and educators have long been concerned about the need for more diversity and pluralism in theological thinking in the church while emphasizing adherence to the basic tenets of the faith. This is seen as especially important for a minority church in a developing socialist country, a church that has struggled hard to be identified with the people of China and to make the church better known and more acceptable to the non-Christian populace.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 13
(Published 1999) We are especially pleased to present in this issue ten essays and sermons by Bishop K.H.Ting from the 1980s and 90s not previously available in English. These are taken from the forthcoming volume, The Selected Writings of Bishop K.H. Ting, which will be published in China in both Chinese and English versions, the Chinese version in October, 1998, and the English version shortly after.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 12
(Published 1998) The Sixth National Christian Conference which took place in Beijing 29 Dec. 1996 - 2 Jan. 1997 saw the election of a new leadership for both the China Christian Council (CCC) and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of Protestant Churches in China (TSPM) following the retirement of Bishop K.H. Ting, who had served as head of both bodies concurrently for fifteen years. The new President of the CCC Council is Dr. Wenzao Han and the new Chairperson of the TSPM, Mr. Luo Guanzong. Both the outgoing and the incoming leadership expressed the themes of the Conference as upholding Three-Self and running the church well.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 11:2
(Published 1997) In this second issue of volume 11 of the Review, we are delighted to provide essays included by both Chinese and American scholars on the subject of religion and culture...We hope this issue of the Review can be part of the larger conversation on Christianity and cultures, broadening as it does the scope of concern beyond Western boundaries and contributing to a multicultural approach.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 11:1
(Published 1996) The writings collected in volume 11:1 reflect ongoing concerns in the Chinese Protestant Church, particularly running the church well and the obstacles to achieving this goal: a shortage of ordained clergy, the need to improve management practices in the local church, the difficulty of enforcing decisions taken at the national level by the CCC and the TSPM, as well as the attendant problems of responding to the needs and concerns of a community of believers which is in large part rural and often poorly-educated, a problem which is referred to as the need to raise the quality of believers.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 10
(Published 1995) This issue contain a tribute to the life and work of Bishop K.H.Ting on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. We offer a biographical sketch, some earlier writings which have not appeared in English before and a recent letter to alumni/ae of Nanjing Union Theological Seminary in which the Bishop sets out some of the issues facing the Seminary and the Churches in China. The early writings, including some written in English while he was working overseas and others written very early during his ministry in China, speak with a surprising relevance about issues still current today.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 9
(Published 1994) Certain issues crucial to the renewal of the Church in China continue to dominate theological reflection there, be it in church documents, addresses, essays or sermons, whether the writer is a church leader, seminarian, pastor or lay Christian. The necessity to run the church well in administrative and financial terms; the need for a well-defined church order; for more and better-trained personnel, both ordained clergy and lay leaders; the need to raise what is termed the "quality" of faith of rural Christians; and the need to broaden the overall unity of the church, all sound urgently and repeatedly through these pages.
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Chinese Theological Review: Volume 8
(Published 1993) With this volume of The Chinese Theological Review, a new numbering system goes into effect. The current volume is volume 8, containing sermons and essays published 1992 - 1993. The sermons in this eighth volume are taken from a collection of sermons by young seminarians at Nanjing Seminary and published in 1988 as a Nanjing Theological Review publication, "The Mountains of Spices". The title is taken from the Song of Solomon 8: 14. Most of the authors have completed their seminary studies and are now working in churches, seminaries and Christian Councils throughout China.
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Chinese Theological Review 1991
The theme of the Fifth National Chinese Christian Conference (NCCC) held in Beijing from December 1991 to 6 January 1992 was "running the church well." In many ways, this theme runs through not only the documents from that meeting which are included in this issue of the Review, but indirectly through many of the other essays and sermons as well, for it is a theme concerned with defining and strengthening the church as an institution, without which the church could not continue to develop its links with the church universal nor reach out to its own society.
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Chinese Theological Review 1990
Two conerns are currently of particular importance to Chinese Christians: first, to ground religion firmly in culture so that it can be seen as a valuable part of it, second, and more importantly, to probe the sources of a distinctly Chinese theology. In general, the articles which have found their way into the pages of this Review have dealt with one or another aspect of this quest.
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Chinese Theological Review 1989
1989 marked the completion of an important decade in the life and work of the Church in China, not in terms of the life of faith, for that has been guarded and sustained since Christianity first came to China, but in the renewed expressions of that faith, in the organization of Church structures, and in theological reflection, publication and education. This period is commonly termed one of "resurgence" or "reconstruction," and refers to the ten years since 1979 during which the Communist Party of China and the People's Government have re-implemented a religious policy more in line with the criteria of religious freedom. Despite the course of recent events, the government has asserted that the policy of religious freedom will not change.
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Chinese Theological Review 1988
A special feature of this 1988 issue is the section on religion and society. It provides a selection of articles reflecting the important changes taking place in attitudes toward religion, both on the part of scholars researching the subject and among people in general. Recent years have seen new initiatives in China's social, political and economic realms. Similarly, new approaches to understanding and fresh insights in the study of religion are leading gradually to an acceptance of the positive role of religion in culture and society, as well as to a recognition of the contributions religious adherents can make to the nation.
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Chinese Theological Review 1987
Many of the reports from the Fourth National Chinese Christian Conference held in Shanghai, August, 1986, which form the bulk of the essays included in The Chinese Theological Review: 1987 contain descriptions of ongoing efforts at broadening the unity of the post-denominational Chinese Protestant church. All Christians who see themselves as Chinese Christians are welcomed into this unity. These very concrete reflections remind us that unity is a process, to be achieved through give-and-take. It can never be an imposed uniformity, a distinction which is drawn by several authors.
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Chinese Theological Review 1986
Unity continues to be a major emphasis in the materials selected for this 1986 edition. It is a unity given width and breadth by the divers traditions Chinese Christians have inherited from their past. At the same time it is a powerful symbol which calls the Christian community in China to new ways of responding and thinking theologically. Many of the articles and sermons included here focus on the concept of unity, what it has meant to Chinese Protestants over the past thirty years and what problems still stand in the way of its full realization.
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Chinese Theological Review 1985
This is not a collection of essays and documents about the Chinese Protestant Church. That Church speaks here for itself, in its many different voices, out of its many different experiences; from veteran evangelists to professors of theology to a recent seminary graduate. We are especially happy to include a selection of sermons, most of which have not previously been available in translation. Materials have been selected from those published in Tian Feng, Sermons, and the Nanjing Theological Review during the period from 1980 to the present. No attempt has been made to be exhaustive, but rather to present an overview of the range of subjects and approaches reflecting the multifaceted unity of the Church in China today.
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