The Divine and Mystical Realm

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" The Divine and Mystical Realm "
Teresa Zimmerman-Liu

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083407
Doc. No	:	LA127036
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02702017‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Teresa Zimmerman-Liu
Title & Author	:	The Divine and Mystical Realm [Article]\ Teresa Zimmerman-Liu
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	27/2-3
Page No	:	239–266
Abstract	:	Indigenous Chinese preacher Watchman Nee is considered to have had the greatest theological influence on China’s vibrant house church movement, yet there are few studies detailing his influence on church practices. This paper analyzes the writings of Watchman Nee and other Local Church members to show how Nee contextualized the message of Western missionaries to China, using subaltern strategies of returning to scriptural fundamentals and reducing the scale of organization and worship. He divested mission Christianity of its hegemonic trappings and created flexible Christian practices, which take place in the ‘divine and mystical realm,’ out of reach from ‘worldly’ power structures.
Descriptor	:	"
Descriptor	:	early 20th century Chinese Christianity
Descriptor	:	geography of religion
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	house churches
Descriptor	:	Little Flock
Descriptor	:	Local Church
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	subaltern theory
Descriptor	:	Watchman Nee
Descriptor	:	Witness Lee
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02702017‬