Heaven and humanity in unity: theosis, sino-christian theology and the second Chinese enlightenment

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/21328 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/21328 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/21328 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/35/35 2012-07-06 11:42:31 2023-06-01 02:40:02 2012-07-06 11:42:31 thesis show 0 Chow Alexander Tang Edmond University of Birmingham Heaven and humanity in unity: theosis, sino-christian theology and the second Chinese enlightenment unpub B1 BF BL 10col_artl Note: the thesis has been significantly updated and published as a book as: Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment: Heaven and Humanity in Unity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 Furthermore, a Chinese translation of the work is due to be published this year (2015) in Hong Kong, through the publisher Institute for Sino-Christian Studies. Author refused to supply on the ground of an updated version in the form of a book. Therefore we take off the request button and direct the users to read the book instead. 25/03/2015 Option C extended to 1/6/2023. This thesis explores various trajectories of contextual theology as they have developed in the two Chinese enlightenments of twentieth and twenty-first century China. Drawing methodologically from the typological works of historian Justo González and the missiologists Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder, one of the main aims of this study is to map and evaluate the various types of Chinese theology. An analysis of three major Chinese Protestant representatives will identify the tendencies of each type, highlight the importance of a contextual theology in dealing with a context’s socio-political concerns and religiophilosophical tradition, and show a bias in Chinese theology towards Latin Christianity. This leads to the second major aim of the study to explore the usefulness of Eastern Orthodox category of theosis and related subjects in the Second Chinese Enlightenment. It will highlight the tendencies of Chinese philosophy and religion, inclusive of Chinese Protestantism, to exhibit many themes from Byzantine Christianity. It will also call attention to the potential usefulness of this other “Eastern” theology in China’s socio-political concerns. This study will conclude by discussing the possibilities of Eastern Orthodoxy in playing an important role in complementing and supplementing future developments of a Chinese contextual theology. 2012-07 graduation eng This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. public 257 University of Birmingham School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion d_ph na 2012-07 graduation