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Article Excerpt
Philip L. Wickeri, Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, 2007, 516 pp.
This is a most remarkable book about a remarkable Christian man and leader living through some of the most remarkable upheavals, threats and, in the end, resurrection developments of the Christian church in China. It is also written by a remarkable disciple, the only foreigner to date to be ordained in China to the Christian ministry within the Chinese Protestant Church. Like many earlier studies in this North American series, this book is not quick, still less easy reading but it will deserve to be read, re-read and indeed studied for many years to come.
Wickeri first met Bishop Ting in 1979, when Wickeri was invited to serve, "as an interpreter for the Chinese inter-religious delegation at the Third World Conference on Religion and Peace" (p. 4), which took place at Princeton Theological Seminary, where Wickeri was a doctoral student. The thesis Wickeri wrote became, in 1988, the comparably full...
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