China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden
China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well. The purpose of this book is to explore how Christians in China perceive the challenges posed by their new urban context and to examine their proposed means of responding to these challenges. Although not primarily political in nature, these challenges nonetheless illustrate the complex interplay between China's Christian community and the Chinese party-state as it comes to terms with the continued growth and increasing prominence of Christianity in modern China.
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China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden
China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well. The purpose of this book is to explore how Christians in China perceive the challenges posed by their new urban context and to examine their proposed means of responding to these challenges. Although not primarily political in nature, these challenges nonetheless illustrate the complex interplay between China's Christian community and the Chinese party-state as it comes to terms with the continued growth and increasing prominence of Christianity in modern China.
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China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden

China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden

by Brent Fulton
China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden

China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden

by Brent Fulton

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China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well. The purpose of this book is to explore how Christians in China perceive the challenges posed by their new urban context and to examine their proposed means of responding to these challenges. Although not primarily political in nature, these challenges nonetheless illustrate the complex interplay between China's Christian community and the Chinese party-state as it comes to terms with the continued growth and increasing prominence of Christianity in modern China.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781625647191
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Publication date: 11/11/2015
Series: Studies in Chinese Christianity
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 156
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Brent Fulton is Cofounder and President of ChinaSource and the Editor of ChinaSource Quarterly.

Prior to assuming his current position, he served from 1995 to 2000 as the managing director of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Wheaton College.

Dr. Fulton holds MA and PhD degrees in political science from the University of Southern California and a BA in radio-TV-film from Messiah College.

An avid China watcher, Dr. Fulton has written and taught extensively on the church in China and on Chinese social and political phenomena.

Dr. Fulton and his wife, Jasmine, live in Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction 1

2 The Context for Change 6

3 New Wineskins 22

4 A Shifting Battleground 47

5 Into the Light 67

6 The Church's Global Mandate 94

7 The Quest for Unity 109

8 Testing the Limits 126

9 Conclusion 135

Bibliography 137

Index 143

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