“In the twentieth century, for the first time, there was in the world a universal religion – the Christian religion. . . . In country after country . . . it took root, not as a foreign import, but as the Church of the countries in which it dwells,” this author powerfully proclaims. Though the term is not used, this was the period when “World Christianity” fully came into being as the major development in Christian history and, perhaps, of all human history.
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W.A.P. Martin (1827-1916) was one of the most influential missionaries in China from the 1850s to the early years of the nineteenth century. He called for a “Confucianism and Christianity” approach.
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Edited by Tabor Laughlin and composed of topical essays by contributing experts in fields ranging from business to minority people groups, the book offers socio-historical perspective and practical ideas to in-country laborers and all Christians invested in the continued growth of God’s church in Asia.
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A non-Christian scholar with a doctorate in Chinese religions said, “China needs this man, because Christianity still has a foreign flavor to most Chinese people, and Chang is so thoroughly and authentically Chinese; he understands us and can speak to our hearts and our minds.” Clearly, Lit-sen Chang’s burden for a Christianity that would be both faithful to the Scriptures and also fully “Chinese,” is relevant today.
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In these chapters, we note the pattern of progression, “conquest,” and then retrogression, as formerly “Christian” nations and peoples were conquered from without or fatally compromised from within.
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Dr. Hancock has presented the reading public with a masterpiece of cultural, intellectual, religious, and cross-cultural history. Just as the announcer on the classical music station will sometimes say, “And now, for our big piece of the day, here is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony,” so this treatise is long and wide, deep and high, rich and complex, with a vast range of topics and a temporal, conceptual, and imaginative scope that one very seldom finds even in multivolume works.
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This one-volume history of Christian missions is, in one sense, comprehensive. Neill’s grandparents and parents had served as missionaries in India, bequeathing to him an insider’s knowledge of missionary life and work, which he augmented by serving in India with the Church Missionary Society for twenty years. His narrative reads like a story rather than a mere chronicle.
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Fervent Faith and Audacious Hope: Reflections on China Today and God’s Purpose
with China in the Limelight and the Shadows (NBR-ChinaSource China in 2020 Workshop)
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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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What can explain the explosion of Christianity in China, despite the apparently insurmountable obstacles of the Cultural Revolution and virtually insignificant number of believers in previous centuries? Builders of the Chinese Church answers this question by examining the lives of nine evangelical leaders: seven Western missionaries and two Chinese pastors.
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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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