Authors & Affiliations: Tsui T.K.-Y.

Pages: 7 - 45

Abstract: Participation in Christ's death and resurrection" is a soteriological notion in Paul, and Rom 6:8 has been taken as one of the instances of such a Pauline soteriological notion. However, as this paper will demonstrate, what stands out most in Rom 6:8 is the sense of Paul's Christ mysticism, as signaled by the phrase "we will also live with Christ" In the first section of this paper, how past commentators speak of Paul's Christ mysticism is reviewed, and it is affirmed that what lies at the core of Paul's religious experience is Christ-intimacy, or the fellowship with the risen, living, pneumatic Christ Secondly, an exegetical examination on Rom 6:8-10 is done so as to demonstrate how this passage can be related to Paul's Christ mysticism, and that the term "dying and living with Christ" can best describe Rom 6:8. In Rom 6:9-10 Christ is spoken of as a risen Lord, who has been raised from the dead and will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died on the cross, he died to sin, but the life he lives now, he lives to God. What Paul says about the believer's dying and living with Christ in Rom 6:8 (note that Paul uses the Greek word ovcaiu rather than ouveyeipco) not only conveys the soteriological meaning of participating in Christ's death and thus dying to sin, but also points to the vivid, living reality of the fellowship with Christ, i.e., the believer's living with the risen Christ in the new life at present Thirdly, when Paul's Christ mysticism is confirmed as the reading perspective with regard to the context of Rom 6:8-11, it further sheds light on how the phrase èv Xpicnxp 'rnaaü in Rom 6:11 is to be interpreted.

Keywords: Dying and living with Christ; In Christ Jesus; Paul's Christ Mysticism

Authors & Affiliations: Oseka M., Concordia Theological Seminary, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Pages: 47 - 96

Abstract: The present paper explores the historical and exegetical context of Luther's trinitarian exposition of the plural form of the adjective qualifying the generic name of God in Deuteronomy 4:7. Granted that Deuteronomy 4:7 utilises only one of several plural forms applied to the Divine and adduced by Luther as proof of the presence of the trinitarian concept within the Hebrew Bible, the function of that biblical passage in his trinitarian argumentation from the Tanakh was examined. To display typical features of Luther's use of Hebrew scholarship in favour of the Patristic ttinitarian and christological doctrines, his statements about the reliability of the Masoretic vocalisation were outlined and his views on the Jewish religion and on the Jewish people were discussed.

Keywords: Christian Concept of Trinity; Hebrew Bible; Hebrew Studies; Martin Luther; Reformation hermeneutics

Authors & Affiliations: Yan Y., Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Boya (Liberal Arts) College, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Pages: 97 - 118

Abstract: With the coinddence of social setting, Biblical Studies and Classical Studies have a spontaneous communion and intercommunication (this article takes New Testament Studies and Greco-Roman Studies as an example). In recent years, Classical Studies has become popular among mainland academics, and the application of Classical Studies as a first level Discipline is undergoing. Therefore, introducing interdisciplinary work between western Classical Studies and New Testament Studies could not only deepen our understanding of the biblical texts, but also promote the influence of biblical studies in the field of humanities in Mainland China, and initiate this interaction as a possible approach in comparative Classical Studies. This article will discuss the possibility and the methodological contribution of interdisciplinary work between Classical Studies and New Testament Studies, from the combined approaches of Chinese Biblical Studies, Chinese and western Classical Studies, comparative Classical Studies.

Keywords: Classical studies; Comparative scripture; New testament studies; Sino-Christian studies

Authors & Affiliations: Kou-Li P., Center for General Education, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

Pages: 119 - 164

Abstract: This study found that medical missions played an important role in the health education of the general public in the Chinese lower classes before the 1930s. Church groups preached to Christianity as well as the rules of health, to the general public, by giving speeches. Speeches were the most important vehicle, among all the health activities undertaken. No matter how posters are attached or how movies are played, there remains considerable value in people giving explanations, which is the basic connotation of education. In addition, from the point of view of Christian speakers, the wording "health" could be easily integrated with Christian doctrine, morality, a strong nation and strong humankind. Moreover, improvement of human health is associated with getting rid of diseases, poverty and superstition. Consequently, Churches combined health education with missionary works, and gradually conveyed the concept of health to general public in their daily life triinking by giving speeches. Such an approach is different from the education provided by hospitals and medical schools, and it spread the western concept of western medicine to China in a different way. The success of Churches was certainly associated with various publicity strategies and mobilization. Churches used various music, dance, dramas and movies as the tools to convey the concept of health. In addition to the influence of change in modem means of communication, the missionary activities of Churches could not be ignored as welL As a matter of fact, many religious groups use diese media to achieve their religious objectives. Because they are the products of western culture, it seems logical to integrate and apply them.

Keywords: Christianity; Hygiene; Medical missionary work; The new life movement(1934); Young Mens Christian Association

Authors & Affiliations: Yi H., School of Humanities, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China

Pages: 165 - 196

Abstract: Recently, Schleiermacher's On Religion has been attacked by contemporary scholars of religion as showing a form of subjectivism that has characteristics from those of Hegel and Barth. These scholars think that religion according to Schleiermacher is a purely private affair, that it is restricted to the interior of the religious individual, and is insulated altogether from the public, observable realm of society, culture, and history. The paper criticizes this view In author's opinion, religious feeling must be connected to the worldview that reality is a universal network of interdependence as laid out in On Religion. As religious feeling-as there described-is not only the perception of the relationships, but also leads to the creation of new relationships through communication of feeling, it necessarily leads to a religious society. On the other hand, the depiction of a religious society cannot be separated from that of religious feeling, because it must actually be based on the communication of religious feeling, and becomes the natural product of that religious feeling Furthermore, the main characteristic of a religious society is determined by that of the communication of religious feeling.

Keywords: Das Gesellige; On Religion; Religious feeing; Schleiermacher

Authors & Affiliations: Luh J.-J., Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan

Pages: 197 - 228

Abstract: This essay chooses the idea of Trinitarian Dao (or the Unity of Three Dimensions in one Way, Three Talents and One Way) in the I Ching (Yijihg, Classics of Changes) often regarded as the universal canon in Chinese spiritual culture on the one hand set alongside the doctrine of the Trinity as die fundamental spirit of Christian theology on the other hand, with the idea of trying to create a preliminary conceptualization of intercultural dialogue for a preliminary intercultural dialogue. Regarding the methodological and ontological dimensions, this dialogue will proceed in the way of thinking by means of the so-called systemic hermeneutics. Thereafter, from the point of view of its three tnalectical models of ground-structure theory, the intercultural impact of both paradigms will be exposed. Finally in the dialectic of cultural transformation, cultural contextualization and cultural fusion or cultural creation, the mutual exchange, amalgamation and innovation shall be envisaged.

Keywords: Hermeneutics; I Ching; Systemics; Trinitarian Dao; Trinity