Alexander Chow
Biographic Data
| ID | 5871946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Chow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Chow |
| SIGNATURE | CHOW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3062-9307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Has Jerusalem to Do with the Internet? World Christianity and Digital Culture
This article was originally presented as the keynote address at the 2021 Yale-Edinburgh Conference, on the theme “Oral, Print, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the History of Mission.” It highlights the rise of digital technologies and the resultant development of digital culture—a culture that scholars of World Christianity are among the most well-suited to study. The article offers vignettes into different ways the Christian messa…
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, An Introduction to Ecclesiology
Renie Chow Choy, Ancestral Feeling
First Page
Lalsangkima Pachuau, World Christianity
China and the True Jesus
Albert Monshan Wu, From Christ to Confucius
R. S. Sugirtharajah, Jesus in Asia
Two or Three Gathered Online
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rapid increase in the use of digital technology by Christian communities worldwide. This paper offers a cross-continental analysis of how churches in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and Europe (the United Kingdom and Sweden) understand and choose to implement (or resist) online services or Mass. Undoubtedly, there are practical reasons behind differences which can be observed, such as the tec…
Covid-19 and Christianity
Religious observance, like almost all aspects of life, has been challenged by the spread of COVID-19. Across the globe, churches were shut for Good Friday and Easter. Muslims have observed Ramadan
Joel Cabrita, David Maxwell and Emma Wild-Wood. Relocating World Christianity
Jonathan Chao and “Return Mission”
Studies on mission and migration have often focused on the propagation of Christianity from a home context to a foreign context. This is true of studies of Christian mission by Catholics and Protestants, but also true in the growing discussion of “reverse mission” whereby diasporic African and Korean missionaries evangelize the “heathen” lands of Europe and North America. This article proposes the alternative term “return mission” in which Christ…
Chinese Public Theology
It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the last communist-run countries of the world: the People’s Republic of China. Yet it would be a mistake to describe Chinese Christianity as merely a clandestine faith or, as hoped by the Communist Party of China, a privatized religion. Alexander Chow argues that, since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), Christians in mainland China have been cons…
State-Sanctioned Protestantism
This chapter discusses the leaders of the reinstated Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and the newly formed China Christian Council (CCC), known together as the lianghui (‘two associations’), and their initiatives as Christian intellectuals since the early 1980s. During this period, the state-sanctioned TSPM and CCC are seen as the only means in which Protestantism could viably engage the state and the society. Such an opportunity was not wast…
The Public as Transcendent
Building on the author’s previous work on the Eastern Orthodox understanding of theosis and the Chinese understanding of the unity of Heaven and humanity ( Tian ren heyi ), Chapter 6 engages Aristotle Papanikolaou’s recent work on political theology and argues the case for Chinese Christianity to have an integrative theology which pursues a Divine–human unity as the foundation for the theologian and the church to engage the state and the society.
Cultural Christianity
This chapter focuses on Christian intellectuals born in the 1950s and having spent their formative years experiencing the Cultural Revolution firsthand. The chapter examines the unique development beginning in the late 1980s when a number of Chinese academics looked towards Christian theology as a way to facilitate the search for modern China—many of whom found no value in being part of any local faith community. The chapter draws on the rise of …
A Divided Public Space?
Chapter 5 looks at how these Christian public theologians compare with other public intellectuals of this period. Because of its significance for our period, the chapter also tries to tease out some of the details of the different intellectual factions that have formed since the late 1990s, paying particular attention to the two major political groupings of ‘new left’ ( xin zuo pai ) and ‘liberalism’ ( ziyou zhuyi ). Whilst the revived interests …
Song Gang. Reshaping the Boundaries
Song Gang. Reshaping the Boundaries: The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era." Studies in World Christianity, 24(1), pp. 90–91
Chloë Starr. Chinese Theology
Wang Weifan's Cosmic Christ
In mainland China, Bishop Ding Guangxun (K. H. Ting) is regarded as the main proponent of a cosmic Christology, which is often characterised as a politicised theology. However, since the 1980s, another leading Chinese Protestant thinker, the evangelical Wang Weifan, would also articulate a cosmic Christology – not to reconcile the Christian with the communist, as with Ding, but to reconcile Christianity with Chinese religion and philosophy. This …
Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment
Introduction 1. The Chinese Enlightenments 2. Watchman Nee's Spiritual Man 3. T. C. Chao's Spiritual Fellowship 4. K. H. Ting's Cosmic Christ 5. Theological Concerns 6. Theosis and China Conclusion Chinese-English Glossary Bibliography
Eschatology and World Christianity
This essay explores the developments of eschatology in world Christianity to show how Christian thought and practice have interacted with various contexts to produce unique understandings of time and history. While a number of geographical contexts will be discussed, this essay argues that there are shared theological themes which transcend geography due to the important role temporality offers to such discussions, in terms of the future, the pre…
Jesus without Borders
Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today
Christianity in mainland China has often been characterized as a religion for the marginalized of society. However, since the 1990s, there has been a growing phenomenon within the country’s burgeoning urban metropolises with an increasing number of urban intellectuals converting to Protestantism. This article explores the theology of several representatives of these urban intellectual Christians who make use of the teachings of John Calvin and hi…
Cindy Yik‐YiChu
Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment
For a millennium and a half in China, Christianity has been perceived as a foreign religion for a foreign people. This volume investigates various historical attempts to articulate a Chinese Christian
Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today
Christianity in mainland China has often been characterized as a religion for the marginalized of society. However, since the 1990s, there has been a growing phenomenon within the country’s burgeoning urban metropolises with an increasing number of urban intellectuals converting to Protestantism. This article explores the theology of several representatives of these urban intellectual Christians who make use of the teachings of John Calvin and hi…
Two or Three Gathered Online
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rapid increase in the use of digital technology by Christian communities worldwide. This paper offers a cross-continental analysis of how churches in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and Europe (the United Kingdom and Sweden) understand and choose to implement (or resist) online services or Mass. Undoubtedly, there are practical reasons behind differences which can be observed, such as the tec…
Jonathan Chao and “Return Mission”
Studies on mission and migration have often focused on the propagation of Christianity from a home context to a foreign context. This is true of studies of Christian mission by Catholics and Protestants, but also true in the growing discussion of “reverse mission” whereby diasporic African and Korean missionaries evangelize the “heathen” lands of Europe and North America. This article proposes the alternative term “return mission” in which Christ…
The East Asian Rediscovery of ‘Sin’
Christian teachings on ‘sin’ have met a number of barriers in their historical encounters with the East Asian context. However, since the end of World War II, indigenous Christianities in China, Japan and South Korea have experienced growing interests in this hated doctrine. ‘Sin’ has become a valuable category to address the existential concerns found in those societies. This has developed in an East Asian discourse about intellectual foundation…
Renie Chow Choy, Ancestral Feeling
First Page
Eschatology and World Christianity
This essay explores the developments of eschatology in world Christianity to show how Christian thought and practice have interacted with various contexts to produce unique understandings of time and history. While a number of geographical contexts will be discussed, this essay argues that there are shared theological themes which transcend geography due to the important role temporality offers to such discussions, in terms of the future, the pre…
Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment
For a millennium and a half in China, Christianity has been perceived as a foreign religion for a foreign people. This volume investigates various historical attempts to articulate a Chinese Christian
The East Asian Rediscovery of ‘Sin’
Christian teachings on ‘sin’ have met a number of barriers in their historical encounters with the East Asian context. However, since the end of World War II, indigenous Christianities in China, Japan and South Korea have experienced growing interests in this hated doctrine. ‘Sin’ has become a valuable category to address the existential concerns found in those societies. This has developed in an East Asian discourse about intellectual foundation…
Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today
Christianity in mainland China has often been characterized as a religion for the marginalized of society. However, since the 1990s, there has been a growing phenomenon within the country’s burgeoning urban metropolises with an increasing number of urban intellectuals converting to Protestantism. This article explores the theology of several representatives of these urban intellectual Christians who make use of the teachings of John Calvin and hi…
Cindy Yik‐YiChu
Wang Weifan's Cosmic Christ
In mainland China, Bishop Ding Guangxun (K. H. Ting) is regarded as the main proponent of a cosmic Christology, which is often characterised as a politicised theology. However, since the 1980s, another leading Chinese Protestant thinker, the evangelical Wang Weifan, would also articulate a cosmic Christology – not to reconcile the Christian with the communist, as with Ding, but to reconcile Christianity with Chinese religion and philosophy. This …
Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment
Introduction 1. The Chinese Enlightenments 2. Watchman Nee's Spiritual Man 3. T. C. Chao's Spiritual Fellowship 4. K. H. Ting's Cosmic Christ 5. Theological Concerns 6. Theosis and China Conclusion Chinese-English Glossary Bibliography
Eschatology and World Christianity
This essay explores the developments of eschatology in world Christianity to show how Christian thought and practice have interacted with various contexts to produce unique understandings of time and history. While a number of geographical contexts will be discussed, this essay argues that there are shared theological themes which transcend geography due to the important role temporality offers to such discussions, in terms of the future, the pre…
Jesus without Borders
Chloë Starr. Chinese Theology
Chinese Public Theology
It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the last communist-run countries of the world: the People’s Republic of China. Yet it would be a mistake to describe Chinese Christianity as merely a clandestine faith or, as hoped by the Communist Party of China, a privatized religion. Alexander Chow argues that, since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), Christians in mainland China have been cons…
State-Sanctioned Protestantism
This chapter discusses the leaders of the reinstated Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and the newly formed China Christian Council (CCC), known together as the lianghui (‘two associations’), and their initiatives as Christian intellectuals since the early 1980s. During this period, the state-sanctioned TSPM and CCC are seen as the only means in which Protestantism could viably engage the state and the society. Such an opportunity was not wast…
The Public as Transcendent
Building on the author’s previous work on the Eastern Orthodox understanding of theosis and the Chinese understanding of the unity of Heaven and humanity ( Tian ren heyi ), Chapter 6 engages Aristotle Papanikolaou’s recent work on political theology and argues the case for Chinese Christianity to have an integrative theology which pursues a Divine–human unity as the foundation for the theologian and the church to engage the state and the society.
Cultural Christianity
This chapter focuses on Christian intellectuals born in the 1950s and having spent their formative years experiencing the Cultural Revolution firsthand. The chapter examines the unique development beginning in the late 1980s when a number of Chinese academics looked towards Christian theology as a way to facilitate the search for modern China—many of whom found no value in being part of any local faith community. The chapter draws on the rise of …
A Divided Public Space?
Chapter 5 looks at how these Christian public theologians compare with other public intellectuals of this period. Because of its significance for our period, the chapter also tries to tease out some of the details of the different intellectual factions that have formed since the late 1990s, paying particular attention to the two major political groupings of ‘new left’ ( xin zuo pai ) and ‘liberalism’ ( ziyou zhuyi ). Whilst the revived interests …
Song Gang. Reshaping the Boundaries
Song Gang. Reshaping the Boundaries: The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era." Studies in World Christianity, 24(1), pp. 90–91
Joel Cabrita, David Maxwell and Emma Wild-Wood. Relocating World Christianity
Jonathan Chao and “Return Mission”
Studies on mission and migration have often focused on the propagation of Christianity from a home context to a foreign context. This is true of studies of Christian mission by Catholics and Protestants, but also true in the growing discussion of “reverse mission” whereby diasporic African and Korean missionaries evangelize the “heathen” lands of Europe and North America. This article proposes the alternative term “return mission” in which Christ…
China and the True Jesus
Albert Monshan Wu, From Christ to Confucius
R. S. Sugirtharajah, Jesus in Asia
Two or Three Gathered Online
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rapid increase in the use of digital technology by Christian communities worldwide. This paper offers a cross-continental analysis of how churches in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and Europe (the United Kingdom and Sweden) understand and choose to implement (or resist) online services or Mass. Undoubtedly, there are practical reasons behind differences which can be observed, such as the tec…
Covid-19 and Christianity
Religious observance, like almost all aspects of life, has been challenged by the spread of COVID-19. Across the globe, churches were shut for Good Friday and Easter. Muslims have observed Ramadan
Lalsangkima Pachuau, World Christianity
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, An Introduction to Ecclesiology
Renie Chow Choy, Ancestral Feeling
First Page
Philosophy (26 works) · Theology (20 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (16 works) · History (16 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Religious studies (16 works) · Christianity (15 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (13 works) · China (12 works) · Sociology (10 works)