Overview One of the most notable contemporary developments in Chinese Christianity is its entry into the public sphere—a departure from its predominant tradition of private spirituality, otherworldly absorptions, and political apathy: Christian engagements with public issues have been spearheaded by Protestant public intellectuals, democracy and human rights activists, and academic theologians: As part of the exploration of this new phenomenon, this talk will focus on the Sino-Christian theology (汉语神学) of He Guanghu 何光沪, highlighting the scope and dominant themes of a theology that seeks to both affirm and transcend the particularities of a contextualized Chinese Christianity:

Speaker Dr. Xi Lian

About the speaker Dr. Xi Lian is the David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932 (1997), Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China (2010), and Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao’s China (2018).