The Chinese Church: A Post-denominational Reality?

Starr, Chloë

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_108

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“…Além dos "cristãos culturais" (estudiosos do Cristianismo que se abstêm de se tornar membros da igreja) também existem alguns grupos cristãos nativos que se recusam a aderir às igrejas oficiais. Um exemplo notável é a igreja nativa conhecida como Igreja do Pequeno Rebanho (xiao qun jiao hui 小群教會), que é inspirada na tradição teológica, espiritual e eclesiástica associada a Ni Tuosheng (倪柝聲, 1903-1972, também conhecido como Watchman Nee) (Starr 2015(Starr , 2045. Embora não haja nenhuma igreja se proclamando luterana, anglicana ou batista na China continental hoje, existem algumas igrejas protestantes chinesas que se identificam com a tradição reformada chamando-se igrejas de gui zheng zong (歸正宗, literalmente, denominação do retorno ao correto) ou gai ge zong ( 改革宗, literalmente, denominação da mudançatransformação) .Essas igrejas reformadas desafiam tanto a visão "pós-denominacional" quanto o modelo de subordinação da relação igreja-estado adotado pelas igrejas oficiais.…”

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Subordinação, separação e autonomia

Lai¹

2021

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Na história da relação religião-estado na China, o modelo de “subordinação da religião ao estado” foi dominante durante séculos. Nos últimos anos, algumas igrejas protestantes chinesas defenderam o modelo de “separação entre igreja e estado”. Por meio de uma análise histórica e teológica, este estudo argumenta que, a fim de aliviar as tensões entre o protestantismo chinês e o governo chinês contemporâneo, uma alternativa conceitual melhor é reconsiderar a questão em termos de autonomia ao invés de separação ou subordinação, e defender a permissão legal para a coexistência de igrejas oficiais e não oficiais e concedendo diferentes graus de autonomia a cada uma.

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Subordinação, separação e autonomia

Lai¹

2021

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“…A notable example is the indigenous church known as Small Flock Church (xiao qun jiao hui 小群教会), which is inspired by the theological, spiritual, and ecclesiastical tradition associated with Ni Tuosheng (倪柝声, 1903-1972, also known as Watchman Nee). 33 Although there is no church proclaiming itself as Lutheran, Anglican, or Baptist in mainland China today, there are some Chinese Protestant churches identifying themselves with the Reformed tradition by calling themselves churches of gui zheng zong (归正宗, literally, return-correct-denomination) or gai ge zong (改革宗, literally, change-transform-denomination). These Reformed churches challenge both the "postdenominational" vision as well as the subordination model of the church-state relationship adopted by the ofcial churches.…”

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Subordination, Separation, and Autonomy: Chinese Protestant Approaches to the Relationship Between Religion and State

Lai

2020

J. law relig.

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In the history of the religion-state relationship in China, a model of subordination of religion to the state has been dominant for centuries. In recent years, some Chinese Protestant churches have advocated the model of separation of church and state. Through a historical and theological analysis, this study argues that in order to relieve the tensions between Chinese Protestantism and the contemporary Chinese government, a better conceptual alternative is to reconsider the issue in terms of autonomy rather than separation or subordination, and to argue for legally allowing the coexistence of both official and nonofficial churches and grant different degrees of autonomy to each.

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The Undercurrent Coming to the Surface

Cao

2020

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This paper explores the convergence and divergence in the development of Chinese Christianity and the global surge of Pentecostalism by focusing on the evolution and expansion of an indigenous Pentecostal sector in Chinese Christianity. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork among prosperous urban church communities in coastal southeast China and the growing Chinese merchant diaspora in Europe, I show that the Pentecostal undercurrent sustained by mostly charismatic women and their rural networks has come to surface and been increasingly transformed by an entrepreneurial male-dominated prosperity gospel. The surfacing of this Chinese Pentecostal undercurrent under the current context of China’s state-led modernization and global business outreach has resulted in a combination of entrepreneurial logic, spiritual renewal, and emotional nationalism in a self-envisioned Chinese-led global mission movement, contributing to the growth of a neo-Pentecostal sector of post-Mao, globalizing Chinese Christianity.

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The Chinese Church: A Post-denominational Reality?

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Subordinação, separação e autonomia

Subordinação, separação e autonomia

Subordination, Separation, and Autonomy: Chinese Protestant Approaches to the Relationship Between Religion and State

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