Chinese Christian communism in the early twentieth century
This article deals with a unique period in Chinese Christianity in the early twentieth century. During this period a number of Christian theologians engaged actively with communism and Marxist theory. We focus on the work of Wu Leichuan (1870-1944), Wu Yaozong (1893-1979) and Zhu Weizhi (1905-1999),...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2016]
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Religion, state & society
Year: 2016, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 96-110 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wu, Zhenchun 1870-1944
/ Wu, Yaozong 1893-1979
/ Zhu, Weizhi 1905-1999
/ China
/ Christianity
/ Marxism
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| Further subjects: | B
Christian Theology
B China B Communism B Jesus Christ |
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| Summary: | This article deals with a unique period in Chinese Christianity in the early twentieth century. During this period a number of Christian theologians engaged actively with communism and Marxist theory. We focus on the work of Wu Leichuan (1870-1944), Wu Yaozong (1893-1979) and Zhu Weizhi (1905-1999), who creatively sought engagements between Christianity and historical materialism and thereby articulated a unique Chinese development, albeit engaged with international currents of thought. The article analyses their varying methods of doing so, their reconstructions of the figure of Jesus and early Christianity, and the efforts to see both the links and differences between Christianity and communism. |
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| ISSN: | 1465-3974 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2016.1169752 |