RT Article
T1 The Evolution of the Ecumenical Vision in the Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Context: A Case Study of the Church of Christ in China (1927-1937)
JF Studies in world christianity
VO 23
IS 1
SP 19
OP 34
A1 Wang, Marina Xiaojing
LA English
PB University Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1638843775
AB This paper focuses on the Church of Christ in China - a visible fruit of the church unity movement in early twentieth-century China - as a case study. Through examining its formation and development from 1927 to 1937, especially its progress in the advocacy of ecumenism in China, this paper aims to explore how the idea of ecumenism had been transplanted, rooted, accommodated and applied in the Chinese context during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper argues that, although the Chinese vision of ecumenism was derived from the West, it had taken a rather different path and reflected an indigenous understanding of ecumenism and ecclesiology. The case of the CCC demonstrated that national requirements played a significant role in reshaping the universal Christian message. The Christian message, in this case the vision of ecumenism, would always have to revise and incarnate itself in the local context which it encountered.
K1 Cheng Jingyi
K1 China
K1 Chinese Christianity
K1 Christianity
K1 Christian Union : History
K1 Church History
K1 Church Unity Movement in China
K1 Ecumenical Movement
K1 Ecumenism
K1 Religion
K1 The Church of Christ in China
DO 10.3366/swc.2017.0167