Description: The book is a manifesto or apologia for Chinese
Christians. It seeks to articulate how it is possible to maintain a
Chinese identity and a Christian identity at the same time without
capitulating to some western or other cultural model of Christian
identity. To be a Chinese Christian is to adopt a distinctive,
unique identity that owes much to both traditions but is sui
generis. Providing great resources for the construction of a
Chinese Christian theology, Confucius and Paul converge across a
surprisingly broad front. Yet, the Christ of the Cross completes or
extends what is merely implicit or absent in Confucius; and
Confucius amplifies various elements of Christian faith (e.g.,
community, virtues) that are underplayed in western Christianity.
The Christ of God as found in Paul's letter to the Galatians brings
Confucian ethics in the Analects to its fulfillment while
protecting the church from the aberrations of Chinese history and
while protecting China against the aberrations of Christian history
in the west. Chinese Christianity has something to give the church
that needs to be heard. China can develop its distinctive vision of
Christianity for the sake of the church universal. Chinese
Christianity will have its global mission if it can find its own
authentic Chinese-Christian identity. Insofar as that identity
brings the best of the Confucian tradition into the Christian
story, it will help revivify global Christianity. Endorsements:
""This brilliant book confronts two fundamental challenges for
culture and faith in the globalizing world of the twenty-first
century: how can the Chinese honor their rich Confucian heritage
yet be transformed by Jesus Christ? And how can the church
universal be reformed through its encounter with a Chinese
Christian theology? Yeo's immensely creative juxtaposition of core
Confucian concepts with key elements of Christian theology persuade
us that Chinese Christians must not jettison in toto their
Chineseness . . . Yeo writes with a sociological sensibility that
infuses the entire volume and engages the most vexing social
problems of our time. He offers wonderfully nuanced and evocative
theological reflections on the self, trust, social identity, civil
society, social harmony, inequality, and political domination. Read
this book imaginatively . . ."" --TERENCE C. HALLIDAY Co-Director,
Center on Law and Globalization ""With his expertise in Paul and
Confucius, K.-K. Yeo has produced a brilliant inter-textual study
of Galatians and the Analects. By putting these two works in
dialogue with each other, he illuminates each in fresh ways by
mutual interpretation, enhancement, and correction. Through
autobiographical reflection, he combines the complementary
strengths of both writings to forge a creative and innovative
Chinese-Christian theology. The result is a profoundly liberating
vision of communal life in which unity does not compromise
difference as a blessing. Yeo models for all of us the truly
cross-cultural nature of all interpretation. Scholars, pastors,
students, and general readers will find this volume to be a
fascinating and worthwhile study."" --DAVID RHOADS The Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago About the Contributor(s): K. K. Yeo
is Harry R. Kendall Professor of New Testament at
Garrett-Evangelical Seminary, an advisory faculty member of the
Graduate School of Northwestern University, and a Visiting
Professor of Peking University. He is the author of Rhetorical
Interaction in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10 (1995), What Has Jerusalem to
Do with Beijing? (1998), and Chairman Mao Meets the Apostle Paul
(2002). He is also the editor of Navigating Romans through Cultures
(2004).
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