{"id":1378,"date":"2009-06-01T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2009-07-14T23:17:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T07:17:47","slug":"christianity-china-and-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/06\/01\/christianity-china-and-college-students","title":{"rendered":"Christianity, China, and College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/andrewbrown\/2009\/may\/27\/china-calvin-christianity\">interesting article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainstorm9.com.br?home_alone_2_lost_in_new_york\">home alone 2 lost in new york&nbsp;movie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sembrarpaz.com?frequency\">download frequency dvd<\/a> <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/frieling.com?the_proposal\">where download the proposal online<\/a> <\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brettmartin.org\/blog?lake_city\">download lake city&nbsp;movie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>    about Christianity in China. The emphasis of the piece is on the dominance of Reformed theology in Chinese Christianity, but I was struck by the comments on the role of universities in the revival.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And in China, the place where Calvinism is spreading fastest is the elite universities, fuelled by prodigies of learning and translation. Wang Xiaochao, a philosopher at one of the Beijing universities, has translated the two major works of St Augustine, the Confessions and the City of God, into Chinese directly from Latin. Gradually all the major works of the first centuries of the Christian tradition are being translated directly from the original languages into Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is happening outside the control of the official body which is supposed to monitor and supervise the churches in China. Instead, it is the philosophy departments at the universities, or the language departments and the departments of literature and western civilisation that are the channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [officially recognised] churches are not happy with universities, because it is not within their control. And their seminaries are not at the intellectual level of the universities,\u201d says Dr Tan. \u201cChinese Christianity using Chinese to do Christian thinking has become a very interesting movement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If [May Tan] goes to preach at an official church, she says, \u201cThere will be perhaps 1000 people and 95% of them are over 65. So it\u2019s a sunset church. But if I went to house church \u2013 there would be 1000 people; perhaps 20 of them in their 50s, and all the rest are youngsters. The older ones will all be professors at the universities. So these are the future of the churches. 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