Template talk:Protestant missions to China

message: Can someone tweak the code so that these admin controls appear within the box boundary? DFH 19:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it. Thanks!!!Brian0324 20:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: Someone please delete this box. Watchman Nee was not a protestant.
:Please explain. He wasn't a Roman Catholic. Is the inference that he wasn't Christian, or that he did not identify with historical Protestant belief in some way?Brian0324 14:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In this sense Watchman Nee was neither RC nor Protestant:  He identified in some aspects with branches of the Plymouth Brethren, many of whom do not classify themselves as Protestant, possibly on account of Darby's doctrine regarding the "ruin of the Church". If I recall correctly what I've read somewhere, during his visit to London, he attended meetings of the Exclusive Brethren.  (Presumably this was as well as his association with Honor Oak).  It is certainly true that Nee did not represent any of the main historic branches of Protestantism. DFH 19:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the clarification. I have done a little bit of research on Nee today. He was so oposed to the existence of Protestant denominations that just to call him "Protestant" as a distincion of "being non-Roman Catholic" seems unfit.Brian0324 19:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: Is Hong Xiuquan really a representative of Chinese Christianity - let alone Protestantism? He believed that he was Jesus' brother. His teachings, however they were inspired, clearly deviated from the Christian Bible so much so that he was disregarded by prominent Christians in China at the time. I don't think that he belongs on the template for missions.Brian0324 13:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: There are a couple of major omissions in this article that need to be addressed: one is no mention of James Legge, the British missionary who was also one of the first English translators of Confucius' analects and other classics of Chinese philosophy. There should be a link included to the Wiki article about him, as well as mention that his work was repeatedly censured by other missionaries who thought his work was too favorable towards Chinese "idolatry." Two is no mention of criticism of the missions by postcolonial scholars like Mary Louise Pratt or even Edward Said. This would be a necessary balance to the overall favorable tenor of the content given here. The article reminds me a bit of the textbooks seen in seminaries and religious schools: it leans too much towards the positive and hardly mentions the Chinese perspective of the missionaries' work. For the sake of good scholarship, more should be done to make the Wiki article more comprehensive. (Fengxi (talk) 20:30, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Legge is listed in the link on the template to (more missionaries). If you feel he is one of the top 7-10 most notable, that is worth discussing. I'm not sure if he qualifies as much as the ones already on the template who are most widely known. Could you clarify about his impact on China as well as his translation of items into English?
Regarding the criticism, it is addressed in the Christianity in China article as well as the article Mission (Christian) which is linked to nearly every missionary biography article. If there is a specific article critique of Protestant missions to China, it would certainly fit on the template, but the examples of scholarship that you mention do not refer to China or Protestant missions in a significant way that would warrant it belonging to the navigation tool for this series of articles.Brian0324 (talk) 15:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article doesn't address more current scholarship 

message: I've removed the picture, as it looks weird on the pages that transclude this navbox. For example, standard layout for bio pages is an infobox in the top-right, with a picture of that person. When this navbox has the image, every bio page displayed Morrison's picture there...quite unexpected and confusing!
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I know he's important (I placed his name in the list of key people, but using his image as the icon for the whole navbox gives undue weight to one particular aspect of the topic, rather than a representative or more general image for the topic as a whole.DMacks (talk) 06:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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message: This template is informative, but very long. On many pages it finishes way past the end of the text (see Carstairs Douglas for an example) and really looks ungainly. It would be better if editors could enable the hide function when appropriate, so that the template would start hidden when the page is first loaded, then be available when readers click "show". Perhaps someone can edit this template to provide such a function (I lack the skills).
If this functionality is already available, can someone please tell me how to do it? Taffy (talk) 09:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
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