Hattaway calls Shandong “The Revival Province,” because it has witnessed so many massive turnings to God, often spilling over into other parts of China. Other provinces have more Christians and a greater percentage of Christians, but none has witnessed revivals as Shandong has.
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Though published more than twenty years ago, this massive compendium of information remains an essential resource for all students of Christian missions, world Christianity, and world history.
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Li Ma’s Religious Entrepreneurism is a dense, complex monograph about a very complicated series of events centering upon a person with many sides to his character and conduct. Though this book contains some useful information and insightful analysis, it is fundamentally flawed, misleading, and of limited value for students of Chinese Christianity.
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This is an outstanding book, of great usefulness to anyone wanting to understand the immense changes that took place in the twentieth century. It is also a marvel of conciseness: Sunquist packs an enormous amount of information and analysis into less than 200 pages.
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Paul Hattaway has given us a major contribution to the history of the church in China, based on extensive reading and personal interviews with key characters in the story.
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Noted historian on the subject of World Christianity, Scott Sunquist has given us another outstanding volume. He possesses both a wide knowledge of the Christian movement’s history as a whole and a comprehensive grasp of Christian missions in all its dimensions.
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The most detailed biography I have read on John Sung, and it provides essential background for the interpretation of his published diaries.
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The authors build their case for relational missionary training on a solid biblical and theoretical foundation, but they are equally strong and practical in the section on how to apply basic principles to actual training.
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Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity breaks new ground in our understanding of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity among Chinese around the world. It also provides valuable information and insight about large elements of Chinese Christianity that are not, strictly speaking, “Pentecostal” or even “Charismatic.”
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Who said history wasn’t relevant? Though at first glance a biography of a largely-discredited independent German missionary who was born almost two centuries ago might seem to have little to do with our current situation, Jessie Lutz’s masterful narrative and analysis of the life and times of Karl Gützlaff provokes the question, Has anything changed?
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The former leader of one of the five largest house church networks in China has penned a story that gripped and moved me greatly. Endorsed by prominent Chinese Christians who know the author, this fast-paced narrative covers the decades from the dark days of the Cultural Revolution, to the continued outreach, even to foreign countries, along with government pressure, of recent years.
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This masterful biography is a loving and skillfully written portrait of the Lin family, spanning five generations. The author also provides an authentic survey of the historical events that overtook the family members during these decades.
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