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This Suffering Is My Joy - The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
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This Suffering Is My Joy - The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
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Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic
church in China, noted scholar D. E. Mungello illuminates the
period between the imperial expulsion of foreign Christian
missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in
the 1800s. Few realize that this was the first time in which
Chinese, rather than Europeans, came to control their own church as
Chinese clergy and lay leaders maintained communities of
clandestine Catholics. Mungello follows the church in a time of
persecution, focusing in particular on the role of Chinese clergy
and lay leaders in maintaining communities of clandestine Catholics
during the eighteenth century. He highlights the parallels between
the 1724 and 1951 expulsions of missionaries from China, the first
driven by a Chinese imperial system and the second by a
revolutionary Communist government. The two periods also reflected
foreign bias against the Chinese priests and laity and questions
about their spiritual depth and constancy. However, Mungello shows
that the historical record of incarcerated and interrogated
Christians reveals a spiritually inspired resistance to government
oppression and a willingness to suffer, often to the point of
martyrdom.
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