In recent years, the Chinese government has tightly controlled the dissemination of key societal information while treating grassroots Christianity like a political opponent. This situation has left independent Christian researchers in a predicament as they struggle to access the necessary research materials while fearing unintentionally harming Chinese Christians, particularly well-known independent scholars.
Who are the neighbors you want to reach for Christ?
Christie Chow… demonstrates that assorted religious and denominational commitments can also profoundly influence the development and success of Christianity in China.
A PhD dissertation analyzing the experiences of cross-cultural workers sent from China is now available in Chinese.
China’s Ambassadors of Christ to the Nations by Tabor Laughlin was published in 2020 by Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, as part of their Evangelical Missiological Society Monograph series.
The book is based on Laughlin’s PhD dissertation analyzing the experiences of missionaries sent out from mainland China and delves into the cross-cultural challenges they face and other issues affecting their ability to remain on the mission field.
A Chinese translation of the original dissertation is now available.
ResearchShare is a place where those in the ChinaSource community can share their research, projects, and academic papers.
A case could be made that, for many Chinese, Christianity provides credible responses to questions that Communism raises but is ultimately unable to answer.
What can we learn so far from this research?
Who and what most influenced Chinese believers to follow Christ?
This set of demographics helps us understand the spiritual backgrounds of believers in China and their reasons for believing.
This first set of demographics helps us see who is in the churches we visited and who is responding to the survey.
A survey to better understand fundamental questions about the state of the church and church members in today’s China.