Christianity and the New China

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CHAPTER 7

Christianity and the New China, 1950?1966 (Pages: 158-182)

1] Prologue

People's Rep of China

1949 message to the world

perge the imperialism element of Christianity 1950

a powerful centrl state - the first experience for Christians.

requirement for leaders of Chirtian org to register with the govnt.

the same as the premodern state

but this time the Marxist ideology religion is doomed, influence to be reduced.

did not try to destroy religion but to have coontrol.

higher priorities - transpoer and communication after the civil war.

agriculture,

but focused on two particular groups prostetant and catholics, due to their extensive foregine ties, imperialist connections.

cutting all ties with the foreign bodies, and register under the government.

three selves idea self support, self government,  self proagation

catholics resist for long. - the role of vaticana and bishop.

2] Protestants 1949?1954: Compliance

initially hostile to the new government.

liberal national YMCA pro ggovnt

Message from the Chinese christians to the mission boards of te world.

- the missionary era was over for China.

- freedom of religion in constitution.

cut ties with foreigners

the role and direction of Chinese Christians in the construction of new China.

manisfesto. signed by many.

some conservative group leaders do not sign.

Korean war changed everything.

denouncement movement

some families dennounce

War - stopping of all remitance to China - mission hospitals and schools.

jesus family

resist america movement

3] The   Christian Manifesto   and Growth of the Three Self

Christian partiotic movement.

purges. decapitations of leaders. true jesus. spying charges. disloyal to china, criminal behaviour.

weng ming dao case. against TSPM

ting. 

4] The Fate of Evangelicals in the TSPM: The Case of Chen Chonggui

Chen supports the new regime.

anti righstist campaign - Chen a target

5] Catholics 1949?1957: Resistance

very different from protestant

abut 3 millions

mostly rural, except shanghai. old and wel established. chanllenge to the state.

landreform, landownership. Pope Pius anti communist.

Pope's rep in china. 

many Foreign priests. slower indigenisation thatn protestants.

Gong becomes bishop.

Foreign missionaries accused one by one as spies.

Gong imprisioned.

6] From the Great Leap to the Cultural Revolution, 1958?1966

7] Some Thoughts

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CHAPTER 8

The Chinese Church from the End of the Cultural Revolution to the Early Twenty?First Century (Pages: 183-207)

1] Prologue

2] Into the Maelstrom, 1966

3] Reform and Opening

4] The 1980s: Protestant Growth, Catholic Recalcitrance

5] A Rural Decade: Christianity as Folk Religion

6] Urban Christianity:   Cultural Christians,   and the Opium War Revisited

7] China in the Arena of World Christianity

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