Chinese Folk Christianity and Its Possibly Missional Nature
During the last four decades, Christianity in China has grown quickly. There are about 50 million Protestant Christians in today's China. The majority of them, however, are in rural areas. This rural Christianity, or folk Christianity, is influenced by Chinese folk religion. This article explor...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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International review of mission
Année: 2019, Volume: 108, Numéro: 2, Pages: 257-275 |
| RelBib Classification: | BB Religions traditionnelles ou tribales BM Religions chinoises CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses CD Christianisme et culture KBM Asie KDD Église protestante |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Missional Church
B Chinese Folk Religion B Mission B Syncretism B Chinese folk Christianity |
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| Résumé: | During the last four decades, Christianity in China has grown quickly. There are about 50 million Protestant Christians in today's China. The majority of them, however, are in rural areas. This rural Christianity, or folk Christianity, is influenced by Chinese folk religion. This article explores the features and the missional nature of Chinese folk Christianity. It exposes several main features of folk Christianity, including its charismatic orientation, pragmatic concern, moral emphasis, and superstitious factors. Its main argument is that Chinese folk Christianity is missional in a situation where the absolute majority of the population is non-Christian. Through describing and analyzing Chinese folk Christianity as biblical, historical, contextual, eschatological, and practicable, which are fundamental affirmations about the missional church, this article reaches the following conclusion: Although it is somewhat syncretic, Chinese folk Christianity, as God's people called in a particular context, has its missional nature. It is a contextualized form of Christianity. Given the particular Chinese context in participating in God's mission, it might be inevitable for Chinese folk Christianity to be syncretic to some degree. In the contexualization of Christianity, however, Chinese folk Christianity has raised some theological questions: How deeply and thoroughly contextualized can folk Christianity become? Are there limits to its contextualization? If yes, what are the limits? |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/irom.12283 |