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Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church

Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church 108 Book Reviews / Mission Studies 26 (2009) 103–150 Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church. By Philip L. Wickeri, Maryknoll, New York, US, Orbis Books 2007. Pp. xxv + 516. $50.00. Th is book, the fi rst in-depth biographical study of Bishop K. H. Ting, is a timely contribu- tion to the study of Chinese Christianity. Ting, who presided over the state-controlled Th ree-Self Patriotic churches in China throughout the 1980s and 1990s, is one of the most important Chinese Christian leaders of the past century. Th e fi rst part of this book examines the origins of Ting’s theology and his identifi cation with the Chinese Communist Revolution. Wickeri argues that Ting’s willingness to cooper- ate with the Communist state after 1949 had to do with the liberal theological training and experience in political activism that he acquired from the Episcopal Church and the YMCA in Shanghai, the Student Christian Movement in Canada, and from Union Th eological Seminary in New York. Ting justifi ed his attacks on foreign missionaries in the rhetoric of anti-imperialism and nationalism, though he was ironically himself a product of Western missionary education in early twentieth-century China. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mission Studies Brill

Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church

Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei
Mission Studies , Volume 26 (1): 108 – Jan 1, 2009
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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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108 Book Reviews / Mission Studies 26 (2009) 103–150 Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church. By Philip L. Wickeri, Maryknoll, New York, US, Orbis Books 2007. Pp. xxv + 516. $50.00. Th is book, the fi rst in-depth biographical study of Bishop K. H. Ting, is a timely contribu- tion to the study of Chinese Christianity. Ting, who presided over the state-controlled Th ree-Self Patriotic churches in China throughout the 1980s and 1990s, is one of the most important Chinese Christian leaders of the past century. Th e fi rst part of this book examines the origins of Ting’s theology and his identifi cation with the Chinese Communist Revolution. Wickeri argues that Ting’s willingness to cooper- ate with the Communist state after 1949 had to do with the liberal theological training and experience in political activism that he acquired from the Episcopal Church and the YMCA in Shanghai, the Student Christian Movement in Canada, and from Union Th eological Seminary in New York. Ting justifi ed his attacks on foreign missionaries in the rhetoric of anti-imperialism and nationalism, though he was ironically himself a product of Western missionary education in early twentieth-century China.

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