Richard Cook is Associate Professor of Church History and Missions at Logos Evangelical Seminary in El Monte, California and serves as Director of the M.A.I.C.S. Program. He came to Logos in 2011. Dr. Cook served as a missionary and seminary professor in Taiwan for over ten years, and before coming to Logos he taught Missions and Chinese Church History at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago (2003-2011). He has MDiv and ThM degrees from TEDS and a PhD in Modern Chinese History from the University of Iowa. He is the author of Darkest Before the Dawn: A Brief History of the Rise of Christianity in China, published by Pickwick Publications (2021) and Expanding the Boundaries: 23 People Who Built the Christian Church, (為神拓疆的工匠──23位貫穿教會歷史的精品人物) published by Tien Dao Publishing House (2022) (in Chinese).
Richard and his wife Pei Fang live in Glendora, CA; they have three adult children.
The Christian community contributed a third way to imagine national salvation, an equivalent force to the two major political parties, the Nationalists (KMT) and the Communists (CCP)…. Modernist and Fundamentalists… had a common political vision. They both embraced Chinese nationalism and portrayed Christ as the only power that could overcome imperialism.
Christie Chow… demonstrates that assorted religious and denominational commitments can also profoundly influence the development and success of Christianity in China.
Cook reviews this recent volume about the first half of Timothy Richard’s career and evaluates the book’s content and approach.
Two book reviews provide Eastern (WANG Jun ) and Western (Richard Cook) perspectives on Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China by Li Ma and Jin Li in which the responses to faith by Chinese Christians in mainland China since 1949 are explored through many interviews.