Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2015

Contents
Inaugural Editorial for Brill Yearbook of Chinese Theology
	Paulos Huang
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Chapter 1
	Chinese Religions and a Harmonious World
		Xinping Zhuo
				Introduction
			1	Globalization as the Continuation of Human History
			2	The Chinese Dream for Human Development
			3	Religious Community and World Community
			4	Chinese Religions and Their Positive Role in China’s New Development
Chapter 2
	Three-fold Thinking on the Sinicization of Christianity
		Zhigang Zhang
			1	“A Foreign Religion”: Thoughts on a Comparison between the Histories of Christianity in China and Korea
			2	“A Dominant Religion”: Thoughts on the Religious Ecology of Contemporary China
			3	Think Three Times Before You Proceed: Thoughts on New Developments in the International Study of Inter-religious Dialogue
Chapter 3
	Reverence for Life and Living with Reverence in the 21st Century: Meditations by a Ruified Christian
		Lauren F. Pfister
			1	Finding Ways toward Reverence in an Unreverent Age: Prolegomenon
			2	Facing a Chinese Irony: Meditation 1
			3	Thinking through the Planetary Environmental Crisis as a Ruified Christian: Meditation 2
			4	Speaking about “Reverence for Life” from within Ruist Traditions: Meditation 3
			5	Some New Reflections on the Dialectics of Harmonization: Meditation 4
			6	Modulating the Dialectics of Harmonization for the sake of Environmental Ethics: Mediation 5
			7	Applying the Modulation of the Dialectics of Harmonization to some Basic Questions Related to Conceptualizing a Ruist-inspired Environmental Ethics: Meditation 6
			8	Reverence for the Vital Environing Whole in and through a Dialectical Move Initiated in Reversal: Meditation 7
			9	Concluding Summary
Chapter 4
	The Dimension of the Human-God Relation in the Thought-picture of Chinese Contemporary Art
		Changping Zha (Translated by Li Cheng)
			1	Humans and God are in Opposition
			2	Humans and God Stand Side by Side
			3	Human and God Combine into One
Chapter 5
	Correspondence Between the Taiping Heavenly Chronicle (Taiping tianri 太平天日) and the “Revelation”
		Weichi Zhou
			1	The Background of the Taiping Heavenly Chronicle
			2	The Correspondences Between the Heavenly Chronicle and the “Revelation”
			3	Angelical Escort
			4	Light and Brightness in Heaven
			5	Heavenly Court
			6	Opening the Abdomen and Heart Replacement
			7	The Heavenly Book
			8	The River of Life and Fruit of Life
			9	“God’s Complaint that People Indulged in Idolatry and did not Worship Him.”
			10	A Panoramic View on the the Human World from Heaven
			11	The God-Demon Relationship
			12	Lashing Confucius
			13	War in Heaven
			14	The Demons’ Exile to Hell and their Number
			15	The Imperial Stamp (xi 玺) and Seal
			16	The Demons’ Multi-metamorphosis
			17	Music, Hymns, and Books in Heaven
			18	The Heavenly Sister-in-Law, Mother, Wife, and Brothers
			19	Millenarianism of the New World: The Advent and a Sense of Fin de Siècle
			20	The Final Judgment and its Consequences
			21	The Sinicization of Millennialism and its Practice
Chapter 6
	Religion and Marriage: The Reconstruction of the Network of Marriage in a Catholic Community in Eastern Fujian Province
		Xianqing Zhang
			1	Social Background
			2	Change of the Marriage Network
			3	Religion and Marriage
			4	Concluding Remarks
Chapter 7
	Differences in Family Values between Greek Mythologies & Hebrew Patriarchal Legend
		Gong Liang
			1	Comparison of “Kernel Narratives”
			2	Comparison of the Narrative Sequence
			3	Comparison of the Cultural Spirits
			4	Summary
Chapter 8
	The Understanding of the Bible among the General Public in Mainland China: A Survey on the “Bullet Curtain” of The Bible
		Zhenhua Meng
			1	Introduction
			2	Survey Samples and Explanations
			3	Analysis of the Bullet Curtain Data
				3.1	Religious Background
				3.2	Knowledge of the Bible
				3.3	Connecting with the Chinese Context
			4	Examples of Comments on the Bullet Curtain
			5	Notes on the Content of the Bullet Curtain and Its Reasons
Chapter 9
	Chinese New Leftism Between the Leviathan of State and the Wild Horse of Liberalism in the Light of Christianity
		Paulos Huang (Translated by Mimi Lemei MA)
			1	The Fight Between the Leviathan and the Wild Horse
				1.1	The State is a Leviathan
				1.2	Liberalism is a Wild Horse
			2	Is New Leftism the Driver of the Chinese Leviathan or the Left Wing of Liberalism?
			3	The Spiritual Effect of the Instant Cardio-reliever Pill of Christianity on the Leviathan, the Rider, and the Wild Horse
			4	Conclusion
Chapter 10
	Person and Shen 身: An Ontological Encounter of “Nestorian” Christianity with Confucianism in Tang China
		Donghua Zhu
				Introduction
				Zunjing 尊經 and Its Relationship with the Antiochene School
				Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Concept of Person: Parsopa and Qnoma
					Parsopa: The Primary Ousia as the Actualization of Individual Existing
				Qnoma: Co-existent and Co-substantial Manifestation of Keyana (Nature)
				Theodore and the Forgotten History of Christianity
				The Idea of Person (Shen 身) in Confucian Classics
				Jingjing (Adam) and Confucianism
				Confucian idea of Shen 身 and its overlap with “Nestorian” qnoma
				Conclusion
Chapter 11
	Approaching Civil Society under Construction: Protestant Churches in China in 2010, Responsibility and Introspection
		Haibo Huang
			1	Civil Society under Construction and Functional Orientation of Chinese Protestant Churches
			2	Specific Approaches to a Civil Society: Social Service and Social Care
			3	Foundation of Approaching Civil Society: Theological thought and Church Organization Construction
				3.1	Theological thought building
				3.2	Organizational Construction of Churches
			4	International Vison Required for Approaching a Civil Society: Promotion of Overseas Exchange
				4.1	Thoughts on the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference
				4.2	Reflections on the Third Session of the Lausanne World Evangelical Missionary Conference
			5	Sustaining Motive Power for Approaching a Civil Society: Self-cognition and Introspection
				5.1	Review and Summarization of the Three-self Patriotic Movement
				5.2	Confront Existing Problems and Be Brave to Reflect
				5.3	Reflections of Believer Group Drifting away from CCC/TSPM
			6	Conclusion
Index