Jonathan Chao and "Return Mission": The Case of the Calvinist Revival in China
Studies on mission and migration have often focused on the propagation of Christianity from a home context to a foreign context. This is true of studies of Christian mission by Catholics and Protestants, but also true in the growing discussion of "reverse mission" whereby diasporic African...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Mission studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 36, Issue: 3, Pages: 442-457 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Chao, Jonathan 1938-2004
/ China
/ Calvinism
/ Mission (international law
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBM Asia KDD Protestant Church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
reverse mission
B Calvinism B House Church B return mission B Diaspora B neo-Calvinism B Chinese Christianity B Jonathan Chao |
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| Summary: | Studies on mission and migration have often focused on the propagation of Christianity from a home context to a foreign context. This is true of studies of Christian mission by Catholics and Protestants, but also true in the growing discussion of "reverse mission" whereby diasporic African and Korean missionaries evangelize the "heathen" lands of Europe and North America. This article proposes the alternative term "return mission" in which Christians from the diaspora return to evangelize the lands of their ancestral origins. It uses the case study of Jonathan Chao (Zhao Tian'en), a return missionary who traveled in and out of China from 1978 until near his death in 2004 and is considered an instrumental figure in the revival of Calvinism in China. This article suggests that "return mission" provides a new means to understand the subjects of mission and migration, and raises new challenges to questions about paternalism and independency. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341678 |