Guns and gospel: a critical examination of Christian missions in China
This article focuses on the British attempt to enter China, the role of the East India Company, the opium trade and the ensuing war (1839-1842). It examines the missionaries’ ambivalent attitudes towards the opium trade and wars, which vacillated between silence, conniving and condemnation. From the...
| Published in: | International journal for the study of the Christian church |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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International journal for the study of the Christian church
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KBM Asia RJ Mission; missiology |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on the British attempt to enter China, the role of the East India Company, the opium trade and the ensuing war (1839-1842). It examines the missionaries’ ambivalent attitudes towards the opium trade and wars, which vacillated between silence, conniving and condemnation. From the missionaries’ point of view, everything was calculated towards furthering the Great Commission (Matt. 28.18-20), and so most Christians at that time did not think it was odd that opium trading and gospel preaching could be endorsed in the same treaty. Opium traffickers and Christian preachers may make strange bedfellows but, in this case, they supported the unequal treaties that Britain imposed on China for different reasons. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-225X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for the study of the Christian church
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2016.1237017 |