Gospel Art in Mainland China and the Sinofication of Christianity : Notes from Four Churches

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Over the past forty years, between forty and eighty million Chinese (from about two million in 1949) have converted to faith in Christ. At the same time, an earlier perception of Christianity as "yang jiao", or "alien teaching", that was almost universal in China in the early part of the century, and remains common in Taiwan, has been replaced by a perception even among non-Christian Chinese that Christianity has become a part of China's spiritual landscape. As the Chinese church has developed over the past forty years largely isolated from Western influence, some Chinese Christians try to relate their faith to Chinese culture : sometimes merely by using Chinese philosophy, music, or visual art forms to depict Christian themes, but often, by linking the narrative of Chinese spiritual history to What they see as its consummation in the truths of the New Testament, much as the early Christians did with Jewish and Greco-Roman tradition. In this paper I will describe the art in four churches, two in the central interior province of Hubei, two in coastal Zhejiang province south of Shanghai, and discuss how it engages Chinese traditions and thought.
県立長崎シーボルト大学の論文
2000-12-20