Cultivating Peace
Peace in Chinese culture, for example, often means requiring others to be the same as oneself, whereas biblical peace means being able to live with people who are different.
Peace in Chinese culture, for example, often means requiring others to be the same as oneself, whereas biblical peace means being able to live with people who are different.
The phenomenon of child prostitution is closely related to human trafficking, the collapse of social values, poverty in Indigenous families, and the violence and inhumanity of the sex industry.
What kind of face does the church present in public? Do our tone and rhythm make people willing to approach us, and do they make us easier to understand?
“Many Chinese churches place great emphasis on ‘truth’ and ‘goodness’ in their teaching and practice, yet they pay less attention to ‘beauty.’” Complaints of…
Who Is the Prophet of Our Time?: The Public Theology Praxis of Martin Luther King Jr. and Billy Graham is undoubtedly a landmark work of Chinese-language public theology.
Resources for Chinese Public Theology
The thoughtful and wide-ranging contributions in this issue of ChinaSource Journal are particularly relevant to where China’s church finds itself today.
当我们谈论「中国」,究竟看见了多少个中国?从北方城市到西北少数民族社群,旅居中国十五年的梁泽修试图超越辩护与批判的两极,带领读者看见那些无法被单一叙事概括的生活、信仰与挣扎。
By looking not only at the church in China itself but also to Christian communities in the global Chinese diaspora, these scholars offer both cautionary tales as well as hopeful visions of what it means to be a witness to the “public God.”
曾经,「科学与信仰」是海外华人教会向中国知识分子传福音的重要切入点;如今,新一代留学生更常面对孤独、焦虑与生命意义的困惑。当信仰的障碍随着世代改变,教会该如何重新思考护教与宣教的方式,在理性对话之外,也回应人心深处的渴望?
在谢克德牧师的地下室里,二十张近百年前的中国福音海报,让安平重新思考:媒体宣教为何需要公共神学?从街头巷尾的海报,到今天的微信与社群媒体,传播方式不断改变,教会是否仍愿意聆听时代,让信仰走进公共生活?
把成果置于人之上,就是在贬低人的价值,与福音所宣告的信息背道而驰。