Builders of the Chinese church
Subtitle: pioneer Protestant missionaries and Chinese church leaders
By: edited by G. Wright Doyle
Series: Studies in Chinese Christianity; Studies in Chinese christianity
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781625643674
Subjects: Missionaries; Missions; Christianity; Church history; Christian biography; Protestant churches; Biography; History
Description: From 1807, when the first Protestant missionary arrived in China, to the 1920s, when a new phase of growth began, thousands of missionaries and Chinese Christians labored, often under very adverse conditions, to lay the groundwork for a solid, healthy, and self-sustaining Chinese church. Following an Introduction that sets the scene and surveys the entire period, Builders of the Chinese Church contains the stories of nine leading pioneers--seven missionaries and two Chinese.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Robert Morrison: missionary mediator, surprising saint  -- Christopher D. Hancock; title: Liang Fa (Liang A-fa): leader in Chinese indigenization  -- Jonathan A. Seitz; title: James Legge: linking Chinese evangelical spirituality with cross-cultural engagement  -- Lauren Pfister; title: Griffith John: faithful pioneer missionary  -- Noel Gibbard; title: J. Hudson Taylor: advocate for Chinas's inland millions  -- G. Wright Doyle; title: William A.P. Martin: pioneer of progress in China  -- G. Wright Doyle; title: "Pastor Hsi"--Xi Shengmo: "overcomer of evil" through prayer and preaching  -- Yading Li with G. Wright Doyle; title: Timothy Richard: a missionary who impacted the late Qing Dynasty  -- Wenzong Wang; title: Jonathan Goforth: tireless evangelist and revivalist -- G. Wright Doyle.