{"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\">inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle<\/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 movie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sembrarpaz.com?frequency\">down\u00adload fre\u00adquen\u00adcy dvd<\/a> <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/frieling.com?the_proposal\">where down\u00adload the pro\u00adpos\u00adal online<\/a> <\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brettmartin.org\/blog?lake_city\">down\u00adload lake city movie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>    about Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty in Chi\u00adna. The empha\u00adsis of the piece is on the dom\u00adi\u00adnance of Reformed the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy in Chi\u00adnese Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, but I was struck by the com\u00adments on the role of uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties in the revival.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And in Chi\u00adna, the place where Calvin\u00adism is spread\u00ading fastest is the elite uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties, fuelled by prodi\u00adgies of learn\u00ading and trans\u00adla\u00adtion. Wang Xiaochao, a philoso\u00adpher at one of the Bei\u00adjing uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties, has trans\u00adlat\u00aded the two major works of St Augus\u00adtine, the Con\u00adfes\u00adsions and the City of God, into Chi\u00adnese direct\u00adly from Latin. Grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly all the major works of the first cen\u00adturies of the Chris\u00adt\u00adian tra\u00addi\u00adtion are being trans\u00adlat\u00aded direct\u00adly from the orig\u00adi\u00adnal lan\u00adguages into Chi\u00adnese.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is hap\u00adpen\u00ading out\u00adside the con\u00adtrol of the offi\u00adcial body which is sup\u00adposed to mon\u00adi\u00adtor and super\u00advise the church\u00ades in Chi\u00adna. Instead, it is the phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy depart\u00adments at the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties, or the lan\u00adguage depart\u00adments and the depart\u00adments of lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture and west\u00adern civil\u00adi\u00adsa\u00adtion that are the chan\u00adnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [offi\u00adcial\u00adly recog\u00adnised] church\u00ades are not hap\u00adpy with uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties, because it is not with\u00adin their con\u00adtrol. And their sem\u00adi\u00adnar\u00adies are not at the intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal lev\u00adel of the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties,\u201d says Dr Tan. \u201cChi\u00adnese Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty using Chi\u00adnese to do Chris\u00adt\u00adian think\u00ading has become a very inter\u00adest\u00ading move\u00adment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If [May Tan] goes to preach at an offi\u00adcial church, she says, \u201cThere will be per\u00adhaps 1000 peo\u00adple and 95% of them are over 65. So it\u2019s a sun\u00adset church. But if I went to house church \u2013 there would be 1000 peo\u00adple; per\u00adhaps 20 of them in their 50s, and all the rest are young\u00adsters. The old\u00ader ones will all be pro\u00adfes\u00adsors at the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties. So these are the future of the church\u00ades. They have reg\u00adis\u00adtered pas\u00adtors, and no access to sem\u00adi\u00adnar\u00adies: But they have youth, and future, and mon\u00adey.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And lat\u00ader on<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cVery soon\u201d, said Dr Tan, \u201cChris\u00adtians will become the major\u00adi\u00adty of uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty stu\u00addents\u2026 that could hap\u00adpen.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>May it come to pass.<u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainstorm9.com.br?matrix_the\">matrix the divx down\u00adload<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle home alone 2 lost in new york movie down\u00adload fre\u00adquen\u00adcy dvd where down\u00adload the pro\u00adpos\u00adal online down\u00adload lake city movie about Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty in Chi\u00adna. The empha\u00adsis of the piece is on the dom\u00adi\u00adnance of Reformed the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy in Chi\u00adnese Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, but I was struck by the com\u00adments on the role \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/06\/01\/christianity-china-and-college-students\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cChris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, Chi\u00adna, and Col\u00adlege Stu\u00addents\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-opinions-and-general-contrariness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-me","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}