Chinese Christian communism in the early twentieth century

Title: Chinese Christian communism in the early twentieth century
Creator: Boer, Roland; Chin, Kenpa
Relation: Religion, State and Society Vol. 44, Issue 2, p. 96-110
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2016.1169752
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: This article deals with a unique period in Chinese Christianity in the early twentieth century. During this period a number of Christian theologians engaged actively with communism and Marxist theory. We focus on the work of Wu Leichuan (1870–1944), Wu Yaozong (1893–1979) and Zhu Weizhi (1905–1999), who creatively sought engagements between Christianity and historical materialism and thereby articulated a unique Chinese development, albeit engaged with international currents of thought. The article analyses their varying methods of doing so, their reconstructions of the figure of Jesus and early Christianity, and the efforts to see both the links and differences between Christianity and communism.
Subject: China; Christian theology; communism; Jesus Christ
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324692
Identifier: uon:25096
Identifier: ISSN:0963-7494
Language: eng
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