Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment

For a millennium and a half in China, Christianity has been perceived as a foreign religion for a foreign people. This volume investigates various historical attempts to articulate a Chinese Christianity, comparing the roles that Western and Latin forms of Christian theology have played with the potential role of Eastern Orthodox theology.

Book contains a great deal of information and insight, and deserves careful engagement by those who seek to ponder ways in which the Christian message can be expressed persuasively to Chinese. Dense, tightly organized, and well-written, the volume deserves an extended description and evaluation. Chow has given us a treatise of significant worth. a vigorous, even brilliant, attempt to construct a Sino-theology within the context of conversations with Christians and others from the Second Chinese Enlightenment . (G. Wright Doyle, Global China Center, globalchinacenter.org, April, 2015)

The book is a most useful introduction to contextual theology in Mainland China in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book is to be recommended as a creative interpretation of Mainland Chinese contextual theology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It would be a useful introduction to Mainland Chinese theology for non-Chinese undergraduate and graduate students. (Thomas G. Oey, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 39 (2), April, 2015)

Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment offers an in-depth study of three important twentieth-century Chinese thinkers (Watchman Nee, T.C. Chao and K.H. Ting). Chow has written a pioneering book, which should be celebrated. (Jason Tsz Shun Lam, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, Vol. 15 (4), 2015)

I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the history and development of Christianity in China. Those with a general interest in Chinese cultural history will also find this a thought-provoking work. (Carl Kilcourse, carlkilcourse.wordpress.com, August, 2014)

Alexander Chow analyzes some of the fundamental differences between the traditional Chinese worldview and that of historic Christianity. This book is highly recommended for those who are involved or who contemplate ministry in the Far East. Itcontains an excellent summary of the theological thinking of several contemporary Chinese Christians and offers insightful ideas regarding contextualization that will be of use to ministers of the gospel whether or not they agree with Chow's emphasis on Eastern Orthodoxy. (Larry Poston, Missiology, Vol. 42 (3), July, 2014)

Alexander Chow's study of twentieth-century Chinese theology presents a remarkably stimulating and thought-provoking discussion. He not only shows how the absence of Orthodox theological thought in China has been to its great detriment, but offers a virtuoso constructive theology showing how it might be possible to reconceive a more Sino-centric theology out of Orthodox tenets. (Chloë Starr, Studies in World Christianity, Vol. 19 (3), 2013)

Auteur
Alexander Chow is Chancellor's Fellow at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Contenu
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 ChineseEnglish Glossary Bibliography