Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment Heaven and Humanity in Unity

by Chow, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781137312617
• ISBN10: 1137312610
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-05-08
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

For a millennium and a half, Christianity in China has been perceived as a foreign religion for a foreign people. Yet in the last hundred years, various attempts to articulate a Chinese Christianity have been made by indigenous leaders like Watchman Nee, T. C. Chao and K. H. Ting. This book examines these and other historical approaches, and highlights their tendencies to draw from Western or Latin forms of Christian theology. Alexander Chow is sensitive to the ideological resources of China's past and present, and shows the potential role of Eastern Orthodox theology in today's development of an authentic Chinese contextual theology.

Author Biography

Alexander Chow recently completed his PhD in Theology at the University of Birmingham, UK, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Renmin University in Beijing, China.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Chinese Enlightenments
2. Watchman Nee's Spiritual Man
3. T. C. Chao's Spiritual Fellowship
4. K. H. Ting's Cosmic Christ
5. Theological Concerns
6. Theosis and China
Conclusion
Chinese–English Glossary
Bibliography