Description: In the 1980s there was a wave of introducing western thoughts in the academia of Mainland China. The significance of this movement is regarded by some Chinese scholars as another Enlightenment since the May 4th movement, 1919. In this movement there was a small group of Chinese scholars who thought that subtle interaction between Christian thought and western culture and academic should be noticed.
The aim of this book is at reporting this academic movement, which is still active and dynamic today. This book includes 22 essays written by authors from Mainland China and overseas, who may be intra or extra ecclesia. But all of them are prominent in their respective geographical and academic area.
This is the first book introducing to the English-speaking world the origin and development of "Sino-Chirstian Studies" and "Sino-Christian Theology" systematically.
Brief description: Prof. Dr. Yang Huilin, born in Beijing in 1954, is Professor and Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China, member of the academic committee of China National Fund for Social Sciences (NFSS), and Vice-President of China Comparative Literature Association (CCLA). As the team leader, Yang has been promoting the interdisciplinary studies of Christianity in his establishment of the Institute for the Study of Christian Culture in Renmin University of China in 1996, publishing the biannually refereed Journal for the Study of Christian Culture since 1998 and organizing the Summer Institute for the study of Theology and Humanities since 2003. His main academic publications include Sin and Atonement: on the Cultural Spirit of Christianity (1995), Quest for God: Faith vs. Reason (1999), Christian Background and Its Cultural Extension (2001), Theological Hermeneutics: Word of God & Words of Man (2002). The collection of his papers in English, Christianity in China: the Work of Yang Huilin, was published by M.E. Sharpe Ltd.(New York) in 2004. Daniel H. N. YEUNG, born in Hong Kong, 1958. one of the Founder and the Executive Director of Institute of Sino-Christian Studies in Hong Kong since 1995. He is the consultant of the Institute of Religious Studies, Shaanxi Normal University in Xian. Member of academic committee of Journal for the Study of Christian Culture and Journal of Biblical Literature Studies.Daniel YEUNG is one of the main promoter of the Movement of Sino-Christian Theology for China Academia since 1995. He is the editor of Cultural Christian--Phenomenon and Argument (1991), Preliminary Studies in Chinese Theology (2000) and the co-editor of Translation and Adoption-Ecumenical Theology and Christian Theology in Chinese (2004) with Prof. Paul Rabbe from China Centre in Bonn, and the co-editor of Western Academic and Advance Studies of Chinese Thought Series,6 volumes set (2006) with Prof. WANG Xiao Chao from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the co-editor of The Emperor System and Christianity in The Transformation of Japanese Modern Society( 2007) with Prof. Shozo SUZUKI from Tomisaka Christian Centre in Tokyo.