Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today

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" Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today "
Alexander Chow

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069610
Doc. No	:	LA113239
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341340‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Alexander Chow
Title & Author	:	Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today [Article]\ Alexander Chow
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Public Theology
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	8/2
Page No	:	158–175
Abstract	:	Christianity in mainland China has often been characterized as a religion for the marginalized of society. However, since the 1990s, there has been a growing phenomenon within the country’s burgeoning urban metropolises with an increasing number of urban intellectuals converting to Protestantism. This article explores the theology of several representatives of these urban intellectual Christians who make use of the teachings of John Calvin and his followers. This article will show that there is a strong theological interest in engaging in the public sphere around subjects like the rule of law, constitutionalism and a civil society. Although the representatives cited in this article have been described as ‘Chinese New Calvinists’ or ‘Christian public intellectuals’, it is proposed here that a more appropriate understanding of this growing and significant group is as Chinese public theologians. Christianity in mainland China has often been characterized as a religion for the marginalized of society. However, since the 1990s, there has been a growing phenomenon within the country’s burgeoning urban metropolises with an increasing number of urban intellectuals converting to Protestantism. This article explores the theology of several representatives of these urban intellectual Christians who make use of the teachings of John Calvin and his followers. This article will show that there is a strong theological interest in engaging in the public sphere around subjects like the rule of law, constitutionalism and a civil society. Although the representatives cited in this article have been described as ‘Chinese New Calvinists’ or ‘Christian public intellectuals’, it is proposed here that a more appropriate understanding of this growing and significant group is as Chinese public theologians.
Descriptor	:	Calvinism
Descriptor	:	Chinese Protestantism
Descriptor	:	house church
Descriptor	:	public intellectuals
Descriptor	:	public theology
Descriptor	:	urban Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341340‬