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Darkest before the Dawn is a major contribution to the study of Christianity in China and a significant academic treatment to this vastly important subject as the author uses secular and Christian history, personal notes, questions, and interactions with students to crate a very readable guide.
Read MoreThis volume supplies essential information about China’s registered churches by someone who served as a missionary among them for a dozen years.
Read MoreI would highly recommend this book as an initial text on the history of Christian missions in China, an introduction to longer and more comprehensive works. As such, it is almost a “must read” for all those interested in how God used frail and faulty human instruments to establish what has been called “the Chinese church that will not die.”
Read MoreEvery once in a while, you come across a book that you think every thoughtful Christian, and all Christian leaders, should read. Sorrow and Blood may be one of those books.
Read MoreDana Robert has given us a slim volume that tells the thrilling story of the spread of Christianity from its beginnings as a tiny minority in Palestine to today, when, as the “largest religion in the world,” “[t]he geographic range, cultural diversity, and organizational variety of Christianity surpass those of the other great world religions.”
Read MoreUnderstanding Christian Mission will probably serve as a standard textbook for a long time. We all owe Scott Sunquist a debt of gratitude for what was obviously a labor of love.
Read MoreChinese Christians in America build a unity out of diversity. Their varied backgrounds force them “to redefine their identity and expand the meaning of “Chineseness.” Specifically, they tend to conceive of being Chinese not in terms of citizenship in a particular nation (though that is important to many) but in terms of a shared culture heritage.
Read MoreThroughout this book we see an emphasis upon radical discipleship, a willingness to give up all to follow Christ, that shames comfortable believers in the West and exemplifies both the core of this book and the chief lesson which we can learn from our brothers and sisters in China.
Read More“The difference between the Chinese and the Christian moralities is radical, not only because Christianity holds human nature to be corrupted but also because China is unfamiliar with the idea of a sovereign God.”
Read MoreThis is a marvelous book, and it represents the learned Sinology of a long line of French Roman Catholic scholars, going back for hundreds of years. Though he devotes most of his attention to the story of Roman Catholicism, the author does give fair and generous summaries of important aspects of Protestantism in China.
Read MoreThe 'fluidity’ of institutional commitment by evangelicals (discussed in this article), is illustrated in the Conference of Missionaries held in Hongkong in 1843. Faced with the challenge of presenting a united front to the Chinese people, the missionaries strove to create a common bible and a common message and continued to sponsor interdenominational missionary conferences.
Read MoreThe focus of this book “is on the shape and nature of the message that has been preached in China – the gospel in Chinese. It is an intellectual history, a history of Christian ideas in Chinese garb” (xiv-xv).
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