Yeung, Hok Wo Henry (2024). A missional encounter in China: governmentality, relations of power, and eschatological praxis. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.
|
Yeung2024MPhil.pdf
Text - Accepted Version Available under License All rights reserved. Download (2MB) | Preview |
Abstract
This thesis examines the encounter of a Protestant missional agent with the state apparatuses of the Chinese Communist Party in the Hu Jintao era. By the construction of an interdisciplinary theo-political framework through the theological concepts of J. Moltmann (supplemented by concepts of J. Metz, R. Niebuhr and J. Ellul) and the non-theological conceptual toolbox of M. Foucault, this study attempts to analyze and interpret in an integrative manner the interacting relationship between the missional agent and respective state apparatuses via collaborative undertakings that were characterized by the productive nature of power and love. Collaborative engagement is argued as dialogical interaction in the anthropological operative dimension within a dynamic web of power and love relations mediated via a politically constructed matrix of governmental rationalities. Theological discernment and historical theo-political analysis of this study point out that, amid the forces of the power of the party-state, which tended to oppress the Christian communities, there was a specific resurgence of possible enlarged spaces that emerged and re-emerged again via the forces of the power of the future in the mission field. Eschatological praxis of the missional agent in the form of missional initiatives functioned to channel reality out of previously pre-defined categories and acted as a force to transform historical events in the missional arena. The Chinese Communist Party can be dominating, but it is not absolute. Dynamic mutuality between the missional agent and the regime was enhanced when power relations were mobilized correlatively.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Masters by Research > M.Phil.) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Award Type: | Masters by Research > M.Phil. | |||||||||
| Supervisor(s): |
|
|||||||||
| Licence: | All rights reserved | |||||||||
| College/Faculty: | Colleges > College of Arts & Law | |||||||||
| School or Department: | School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Department of Theology and Religion | |||||||||
| Funders: | None/not applicable | |||||||||
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology |
|||||||||
| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/14812 |
Actions
 |
Request a Correction |
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year