The Fundamentalist Movement among Protestant Missionaries in China, 1920-1937

by Yao, Kevin Xiyi

• ISBN13: 9780761827412
• ISBN10: 0761827412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-11
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Through a series of case studies of major fundamentalist missionary institutions and campaigns in China from 1930 to 1937, this work traces and clarifies the historical process of the movement and its controversy with modernism, the nature of character of the movement, its theological cores, its impact upon missionary thinking and strategies, and its influences on emerging evangelicals within Chinese churches.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Road to the Controversy	p. 23
China in Transition
The Expansion of Protestant Missions in China from 1807 to 1910
The New Missionary Trends and Spread of Liberal Mission Thinking in the 1910s and 1920s
The Conservatives' Growing Dissatisfaction with the Liberal Trend
The Bible Union of China	p. 55
The North Jiangsu Mission and the Nanjing Theological Seminary	p. 101
The North China Theological Seminary	p. 139
The Fundamentalists and the Church Union Movement	p. 183
The Controversies of the 1930s	p. 231
The Controversy over the China Sunday School Union
The Controversy over the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry
The Controversy over China Missions of the Independent Board of Presbyterian Foreign Missions
Conclusion	p. 279
The Nature, Character, and Diversity of the Fundamentalist Movement
The Missionary Fundamentalist Movement's Chinese Roots and North American Connections
The Missionary Fundamentalist Movement's Relationship with Indigenous Conservative Protestants
Bibliography	p. 289
Index	p. 309
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