RT Article
T1 Chinese Christian communism in the early twentieth century
JF Religion, state & society
VO 44
IS 2
SP 96
OP 110
A1 Boer, Roland 1961-
A2 Chin, Kenpa
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1571255818
AB 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.
K1 China
K1 Christian Theology
K1 Communism
K1 Jesus Christ
DO 10.1080/09637494.2016.1169752