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Exporting progressivism to communist China : how New York's Union Seminary liberalized Christianity in twentieth-century China

Title
  1. Exporting progressivism to communist China : how New York's Union Seminary liberalized Christianity in twentieth-century China / Christopher D. Sneller ; foreword by Alister E. McGrath.
Published by
  1. Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2023]
  2. ©2023
Author
  1. Sneller, Christopher D.

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Additional authors
  1. McGrath, Alister E., 1953-
Description
  1. xi, 239 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "Using new archival research, this book shows how Union Theological Seminary exported progressive Christianity to Communist China. Founded in 1836, the New York seminary disseminated its version of Christianity to China through its alumni. From 1911 to 1949, 196 Union alumni went to China. Thirty-nine of these former students were Chinese nationals. Many of these Chinese students--such as Y. T. Wu (Wu Yaozong), K. H. Ting (Ding Guangxun), John Sung (Song Shangjie), and Timothy Tingfang Lew (Liu Tingfang)--became key leaders in the Sino-Foreign Protestant Establishment and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. The school became a dense hub of influential Chinese and American Christians. Union's role in liberalizing and indigenizing Christianity in twentieth-century China has been largely unnoticed, until now"--
Series statement
  1. EMS monograph series ; 16
Uniform title
  1. Evangelical Missiological Society monograph series ; 16.
Subject
  1. Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)
  2. Christian education > China > History > 20th century
  3. Christians > China > History > 20th century
  4. Chrétiens > Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle
  5. China > Church history > 20th century
  6. Chine > Histoire religieuse > 20e siècle
  7. China
Genre/Form
  1. Church history
Contents
  1. Introduction -- Christianity in China -- Union Seminary (NY) -- Union and China's Christian colleges: Y.t. Wu -- Union and New York's elite : John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Henry R. Luce -- Union and the student Christian movement : K.H. Ting -- Union and the cross and sword secret society : Timothy Tingfang Lew and William Hung -- Union and the Chinese Students' Christian Association : Andrew Y.Y. Tsu and Siu-may Kuo -- To China's three-self patriotic movement -- Conclusion
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239).