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John Song - Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man (Hardcover)
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John Song - Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man (Hardcover)
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Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of
people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of
generations of readers. His story, as it became popular in the
West, possessed memorable, if not necessarily true, elements: Song
was converted while he studied in New York at Union Theological
Seminary in 1927, but his modernist professors placed him in an
insane asylum because of his fundamentalism. Upon his release, he
returned to China and drew enormous crowds as he introduced
hundreds of thousands of people to the Old-Time Religion. In John
Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man ,
Daryl Ireland upends conventional images of John Song and
theologically conservative Chinese Christianity. Working with never
before used sources, this groundbreaking book paints the picture of
a man who struggled alongside his Chinese contemporaries to find a
way to save their nation. Unlike reformers who attempted to update
ancient traditions, and revolutionaries who tried to escape the
past altogether, Song hammered out the contours of a modern Chinese
life in the furnace of his revivals. With sharp storytelling and
careful analysis, Ireland reveals how Song ingeniously reformulated
the Christian faith so that it was transformative and transferrable
throughout China and Southeast Asia. It created new men and women
who thrived in the region's newly globalized cities. Song's style
of Christianity continues to prove resilient and still animates the
extraordinary growth of the Chinese church today.
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