Salt and Light, Volume 2: More Lives of Faith That Shaped by Stacey Bieler,Carol Lee Hamrin

By Stacey Bieler,Carol Lee Hamrin

The hidden seeds of the Christian renewal in China this present day contain the phenomenal chinese language Christians in Salt and light-weight 2, a dozen new existence tales with vigorous anecdotes and pictures. those reformers made lasting contributions that formed glossy China. figuring out of the limelight of their professions, they'd quiet yet robust influence on early twentieth-century civil society. prompted by means of their religion, they modeled crucial virtues. This sequence is helping recuperate a misplaced Christian history associated heavily to a legacy of East-West cooperation in an previous international era.

Contributors:
Jean-Paul Wiest, Chi Wai Cheung, Kazimierz Poznanski, Wenzong Wang, Ying Zhu, and John Barwick

"The moment quantity of Salt and lightweight is a superb accomplishment. It takes as its scene the world's biggest state in the course of a century of turmoil and pain, and indicates how a couple of heroic chinese language Christians attempted to rescue and redeem their nice state. The tales are with out exception inspiring. even as, they shed a lot unsuspected gentle at the heritage either one of China and of Christianity."
--Philip Jenkins,
author of The misplaced historical past of Christianity

"The editors have assembled a powerful group of authors, either chinese language and American, to jot down those compelling photographs. the themes are lay chinese language Christians who have been energetic among 1850 and 1950, all of whom had a few touch with the us and all of whom have been leaders in build up chinese language society. For our day, which marvels on the fast unfold of Christianity in modern China, this booklet is principally very important for displaying how long-standing and the way effective--but additionally how Chinese--have been the intense Christian contributions to chinese language society. it is a extremely important book."
--Mark Noll
author of the hot form of worldwide Christianity

"Living as much as the excessive criteria of quantity 1, this publication deals new, finely written pics of chinese language Christian patriots of the 20 th century. Their tales are either interesting and encouraging, they usually open new home windows for viewing the background of contemporary China. they assist us see the ethical demanding situations and cultural changes that underlay the political and monetary struggles of the chinese language revolution.
--Richard Madsen
author of Democracy's Dharma and China's Catholics

"Carol Hamrin and Stacey Bieler have introduced jointly one other set of illuminating graphics of old chinese language Christian leaders. We see the following the lads and girls who sowed the seeds of non secular, mental, and actual transformation that helped make the chinese language church--and certainly China itself--what it truly is this present day. a very interesting book."
--Rob Gifford
author of China Road

Carol Lee Hamrin is learn professor at George Mason collage and a senior go together with international China heart and writer of God and Caesar in China and choice Making in Deng's China.

Stacey Bieler is writer of "Patriots" or "Traitors"? A background of American-Educated chinese language Students.

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