Authors & Affiliations: Kao C.-Y., Institute of Ethnology Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Pages: 7 - 44

Abstract: The twentieth century witnessed the remarkable growth of Protestantism in China despite attempts to eradicate religion during the Cultural Revolution. Employing Bruno Latour's actor-network theory (ANT) to analyze three Fuzhou Protestants' life histories, this paper explores how Protestantism gained strength during the Cultural Revolution despite the lack of conventional institutional resources. I argue that Fuzhou Protestantism in this period experienced an intensification of the dual process of disassembly and reassembly. When institutional Protestant Christianity was dissolved, the form of Protestantism that emerged during the Cultural Revolution increasingly enlisted indigenous—and ever more heterogeneous—elements as mediators of action. This reassembled Christian formation withstood the harsh suppression of the Cultural Revolution, but feced challenges in the Reform and Opening period. © 2021 Chung Yuan Christian University. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Key-words: Fuzhou; Protestantism; Reassembly actor-networic theory; The Cultural Revolution

Authors & Affiliations: Weihua Y., Department of History, Shanghai University, China

Pages: 45 - 86

Abstract: Sun Yat-sen, an active christian in the 19th century, was established as a pious and great christian image in the 20th century, especially after his death. This was the result of the discourse construction of Chinese christians, especially liberal christians. Sun Yat-sen presented an image as a great christian revolution and national leader, who followed the teachings of faith and led the chínese to get rid of alien and autocratic rule and move towards a free and equal new China. However, such images were not a simple representation of the christian Sun Yat-sen. When Kuomintang used Sun Yat-sen to establish party authority, Chinese christians also made ftill use of this public resource to build Sun Yat-sen's religious image: Chinese Moses or chínese Jesus. Their purposes were to effect a reconciliation with nationalism and revolutionary ideology through a creative interpretation, and to achieve their own multale political and religious goals, and finally as a way to reconstrua religjous self-identity, political identity and national identity. © 2021 Chung Yuan Christian University. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Chinese christians; Identity narrative; Sun Yat-sen

Authors & Affiliations: Feng G.L., School of Foreign Languages, Jimei University, China; Feng Y., Foreign Languages College, Fujian Normal University, China

Pages: 87 - 124

Abstract: Although there have been a lot of research on Yen Fuh, his compatible or fiiendly attitude towards Christianity is rarely mentioned, which can actually be seen {com his translations and social intercourse. Yen was bom into a traditional scholady family and he was interested in the art of governing the country living in the Qingndynasty cultural surrounding frequented by anti-Christianity cases, he still had bowing acquaintance with missionaries and was deeply influenced by their thought Yen's eight great translated books, which brought him fame as a translator, played an important role in the transcending of Chinese society This article iUustrates Yen's comments and notes in his translated books in which can be sensed a strong momentum to disseminate Christian thought as a channel of his political participation through translation. Through his translated books. Yen intended to improve the morality of Chinese people, to enhance the rule of law and civil rigjits and to disseminate western thought in China. In doing translation, Yen used Chinese supernatural dictions, rather than transliteration or coinages, to translate Christian supernatural ones. And he adopted the approach of domestication by using el^ant literary quotations instead of foreignÌ2ation to translate biblical allusions. Besides, Yen made a point of the educational value of Christianity and he reconstructed missionaries' occasional negative image in his translation by rewriting the source text so that they could be well liked. Yen's was sincere in his feelings, instead of being diplomatic, and his translation approaches were in tune with his sentiments. Therefore, his translated works all reveal his friendly attitude towards Christianity © 2021 Chung Yuan Christian University. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Christianity missionaries; Translation; Yen Fuh

Authors & Affiliations: Wei H., Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, China

Pages: 125 - 148

Abstract: In the article 'The Aposde Paul and die Introspective Conscience of the West," Krister Stendahl atgues that Paul always has a "robust conscience" before and after his conversion, but Martin Luther in accordance with his own religious experience misinterprets it as a "plagued conscience" and this misinterpretation can be traced back even to Augustine, This paper attempts to clarify that debate and examine in the context of the ancient Greek and Hellenistic theory of conscience how Augustine transforms the core of Paul's doctrine of justification by feith and consequendy invents the concept of introspective conscience in the western intellectual history. Augustine divides this conscience into two stages. The former refers to a period after the descent of grace but before die conversion of a believer. The latter refers to Paul's post-conversion. He interprets that, in the former period, the inner self experiences a continuous spiritual conflict between good will and evil will; however, in the latter period, the inner self experiences a much deeper spiritual struggle because of a certainty of Goďs plan of predestination but an uncertainty of salvation for each individual. We can see that the concept of introspective conscience has shaped the deep consciousness of sin for many Western Christians. © 2021 Chung Yuan Christian University. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Augustine; Introspective conscience; Ludier; New Perspective of Raul; Romans

Authors & Affiliations: Tseng S.K., Institute of Religious Studies, Zhejiang University, China

Pages: 149 - 189

Abstract: This article comprises an exposition of Karl Bardi's Gottes Gnadenwahl (1936). The treatise represents a significant statement of the Swiss theologian's relocation of the centre of theological ontology and epistemology from a locus in temporal actuality to a locus in the actuality of Jesus Christ who is at once eternal and temporal. In this article I will unpack some important implications of this turn to Christocentrism by a dose reading of the text, paying dose attention to Barth's critical employment of German idealist vocabularies in his devdopment of what mig^t in a qualified sense be called an "actualistic ontolog/' as a corrective to the metaphysical doctrines formulated by his Latin predecessors. I will set forth the thesis that the Christocentric doctrine of dection Barth devdoped in 1936 is a reflective after-thinking (Nachdenken) of God's unsublatable subjectivity in the fimnework of the actualistic dialectic: Golgotha is the outward basis of dection, and dection is the inward basis of the crucifixion. © 2021 Chung Yuan Christian University. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Actualistic ontology; Christocentrism; Dection; German idealism; Kari Barth

Authors & Affiliations: Chan Ka-Fu K., Center for Judaic and Inter-religious Studies, School of Philosophy, Social Development Shandong University, China

Pages: 191 - 211

Abstract: This paper aims at arguing that, firstly, the focus of Agamben's Pauline messianism is the operation of suspension -v^ch is inspired by '3enjamin-Schrnitf ' political-theologjcal debate. The radicalness of this political suspension does not intend to destroy or replace, but brings it to the fulfillment and suspend its power and operation. Secondly, it will demonstrate the interpretative fiinction of suspension / inoperation in the concept of Agamben's messianic time \diose proper meaning is to produce "the time that remains," in contract with the future-orientated eschatology and vertical dimension of "eternity-time" model. Thirdly, this understanding of the time is intended to transform the meaning of past and present, and brings the redemptive power in the past © 2021 Chung Yuan Christian University. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Inoperative; Messianiq exception; Suspension