Albert Wu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3676333 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Albert Wu |
| PRENOMES | Albert |
| SOBRENOME | Wu |
| ASSINATURA | WU A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | American University of Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6253-6984 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
“Grains of Truth”
This article examines the intellectual formation of Johannes Schütte, Superior General of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and a central figure in the drafting of Ad Gentes Divinitus , the Second Vatican Council’s 1965 decree on mission. Drawing on Schütte’s missionary writings and SVD archival materials, this article argues that his decade in China – which ended in imprisonment and expulsion by Communist authorities in the early 1950s – deci…
The Perils of Human Exceptionalism
Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China
The late nineteenth-century age of empire was also an age of anti-superstition. In China, Western missionaries, diplomats and travellers labelled practices that resisted Western technologies and ideas as 'superstitious'. This article examines how a group of Qing scholar-officials, all members of the diplomatic corps, interpreted and ultimately defended these customs. Conventionally viewed as tragic figures unable to transcend a 'Sinocentric' worl…
Bernhard Ortmann, Die Hildesheimer Blindenmission in Hongkong. Blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder in Werk und Wahrnehmung einer Frauenmission, ca. 1890–1997
In this well-researched and elegantly written monograph, Bernhard Ortmann presents the first detailed history of the Hildesheim Mission for the Blind in Hong Kong. Several facets combine to make the mission worthy of note—the Hildesheim Mission was a German missionary society operating in the British colony of Hong Kong; it was one of the few missionary societies created ‘by women for women’ (p.16); and it carried out the specific mission of serv…
Between the Global and the Local
In the shadow of empire
This article examines the life and ideas of Josef Schmidlin, the founder of Catholic ‘missionary science’ and the most influential German Catholic missionary theorist of the first half of the twentieth century. An admirer of the German Protestant missionary theologian Gustav Warneck, Schmidlin often appears in the historiography as a forerunner of the Protestant–Catholic ecumenical collaboration that emerged after the Second World War. Yet a clos…
The Quest for an “Indigenous Church”
In the 1920s, the concept of “indigenization” was debated along the ideological spectrum. Communists, liberal internationalists, and Christian missionaries all considered how to make their “universal” ideology local or “indigenous” to the culture it encountered. Focusing on German Protestants and Chinese Christians, this article examines the debates over the “indigenous church” within Christian missionary circles in China. The two groups shared m…
From Christ to Confucius
This book examines how German Protestant and Catholic missionaries reconsidered their attitudes toward Confucianism and, more broadly, Chinese culture. In the 1860s, German missionaries attacked traditional Chinese values as antithetical to their goals of converting China to Christianity, and congregational leadership lay solely in German hands. By the 1930s, missionaries commented that Christianity’s global survival—both in China and the West—de…
Forever a Patriot
This article examines the global ramifications of the “decline” of American liberal Protestant theology. Focusing on the case of liberal Protestantism in China, it tells the story of the Chinese theologian Xie Fuya, who was a staunch defender of American liberal Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1970s, he had become a critic of liberal Protestantism. Instead, he called for the creation of a solely Chinese Christianity, independent of a…
It takes threat of Ebola to see lessons from low income countries
In his recent perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine, the head of the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Thomas Frieden, and colleagues, were concerned that the arrival of the Ebola virus (EVD) in Lagos, Nigeria heralded a concerning escalation of the epidemic in West Africa [1]. By 24th September 2014, a total of 20 EVD cases (19 laboratory confirmed, one probable) had been reported in Nigeria. All 2…
Ernst Faber and the Consequences of Failure
In 1898, the year before his death, the German missionary Ernst Faber reflected on his forty-year career in China. The account of his early missions work was suffused with a tone of failure and disappointment. He wrote openly about his difficulties in adjusting to the climate and environment of southern China, the diminutive numbers of converts to Christianity, his frustrations with learning Mandarin and the local dialects used in Guangdong, and …
Catholic and Protestant Individuals in Nineteenth-Century German Missionary Periodicals
Upon first glance, nineteenth-century German Catholic and Protestant missionary periodicals seem to come from different milieus. Compare two mastheads: an October 1895 issue of the monthly periodical of the Catholic Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and the Protestant Berlin Missionary Society's monthly periodical of November 1895. An ornate woodcut print inhabits the masthead of the SVD periodical, the Kleiner-Herz Jesu-Bote. Jesus, with his sacr…
Seeing Things Their Way
The Second Disestablishment
America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity – By Robert Wuthnow
Unashamed of the Gospel
On August 23, 1859, a death occurred in the prison at Moabit, a largely working-class neighborhood in Berlin that housed the largest penitentiary of its time. An inmate named Jacobi attacked and wounded a fellow inmate, forcing the prison warden, Kügler, and the prison supervisor, Brother Anton, to intervene. When Jacobi showed no signs of calming down, Kügler and Anton tried to force Jacobi into a straitjacket. During the struggle, Kügler shot a…
Decolonizing church
Calls to ‘decolonize’ abound. Earlier discussions of decolonization dwelt mainly on the
The Quest for an “Indigenous Church”
In the 1920s, the concept of “indigenization” was debated along the ideological spectrum. Communists, liberal internationalists, and Christian missionaries all considered how to make their “universal” ideology local or “indigenous” to the culture it encountered. Focusing on German Protestants and Chinese Christians, this article examines the debates over the “indigenous church” within Christian missionary circles in China. The two groups shared m…
Ernst Faber and the Consequences of Failure
In 1898, the year before his death, the German missionary Ernst Faber reflected on his forty-year career in China. The account of his early missions work was suffused with a tone of failure and disappointment. He wrote openly about his difficulties in adjusting to the climate and environment of southern China, the diminutive numbers of converts to Christianity, his frustrations with learning Mandarin and the local dialects used in Guangdong, and …
Catholic and Protestant Individuals in Nineteenth-Century German Missionary Periodicals
Upon first glance, nineteenth-century German Catholic and Protestant missionary periodicals seem to come from different milieus. Compare two mastheads: an October 1895 issue of the monthly periodical of the Catholic Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and the Protestant Berlin Missionary Society's monthly periodical of November 1895. An ornate woodcut print inhabits the masthead of the SVD periodical, the Kleiner-Herz Jesu-Bote. Jesus, with his sacr…
Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China
The late nineteenth-century age of empire was also an age of anti-superstition. In China, Western missionaries, diplomats and travellers labelled practices that resisted Western technologies and ideas as 'superstitious'. This article examines how a group of Qing scholar-officials, all members of the diplomatic corps, interpreted and ultimately defended these customs. Conventionally viewed as tragic figures unable to transcend a 'Sinocentric' worl…
In the shadow of empire
This article examines the life and ideas of Josef Schmidlin, the founder of Catholic ‘missionary science’ and the most influential German Catholic missionary theorist of the first half of the twentieth century. An admirer of the German Protestant missionary theologian Gustav Warneck, Schmidlin often appears in the historiography as a forerunner of the Protestant–Catholic ecumenical collaboration that emerged after the Second World War. Yet a clos…
Unashamed of the Gospel
On August 23, 1859, a death occurred in the prison at Moabit, a largely working-class neighborhood in Berlin that housed the largest penitentiary of its time. An inmate named Jacobi attacked and wounded a fellow inmate, forcing the prison warden, Kügler, and the prison supervisor, Brother Anton, to intervene. When Jacobi showed no signs of calming down, Kügler and Anton tried to force Jacobi into a straitjacket. During the struggle, Kügler shot a…
America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity – By Robert Wuthnow
Seeing Things Their Way
The Second Disestablishment
Catholic and Protestant Individuals in Nineteenth-Century German Missionary Periodicals
Upon first glance, nineteenth-century German Catholic and Protestant missionary periodicals seem to come from different milieus. Compare two mastheads: an October 1895 issue of the monthly periodical of the Catholic Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and the Protestant Berlin Missionary Society's monthly periodical of November 1895. An ornate woodcut print inhabits the masthead of the SVD periodical, the Kleiner-Herz Jesu-Bote. Jesus, with his sacr…
Ernst Faber and the Consequences of Failure
In 1898, the year before his death, the German missionary Ernst Faber reflected on his forty-year career in China. The account of his early missions work was suffused with a tone of failure and disappointment. He wrote openly about his difficulties in adjusting to the climate and environment of southern China, the diminutive numbers of converts to Christianity, his frustrations with learning Mandarin and the local dialects used in Guangdong, and …
It takes threat of Ebola to see lessons from low income countries
In his recent perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine, the head of the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Thomas Frieden, and colleagues, were concerned that the arrival of the Ebola virus (EVD) in Lagos, Nigeria heralded a concerning escalation of the epidemic in West Africa [1]. By 24th September 2014, a total of 20 EVD cases (19 laboratory confirmed, one probable) had been reported in Nigeria. All 2…
From Christ to Confucius
This book examines how German Protestant and Catholic missionaries reconsidered their attitudes toward Confucianism and, more broadly, Chinese culture. In the 1860s, German missionaries attacked traditional Chinese values as antithetical to their goals of converting China to Christianity, and congregational leadership lay solely in German hands. By the 1930s, missionaries commented that Christianity’s global survival—both in China and the West—de…
Forever a Patriot
This article examines the global ramifications of the “decline” of American liberal Protestant theology. Focusing on the case of liberal Protestantism in China, it tells the story of the Chinese theologian Xie Fuya, who was a staunch defender of American liberal Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1970s, he had become a critic of liberal Protestantism. Instead, he called for the creation of a solely Chinese Christianity, independent of a…
The Quest for an “Indigenous Church”
In the 1920s, the concept of “indigenization” was debated along the ideological spectrum. Communists, liberal internationalists, and Christian missionaries all considered how to make their “universal” ideology local or “indigenous” to the culture it encountered. Focusing on German Protestants and Chinese Christians, this article examines the debates over the “indigenous church” within Christian missionary circles in China. The two groups shared m…
Bernhard Ortmann, Die Hildesheimer Blindenmission in Hongkong. Blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder in Werk und Wahrnehmung einer Frauenmission, ca. 1890–1997
In this well-researched and elegantly written monograph, Bernhard Ortmann presents the first detailed history of the Hildesheim Mission for the Blind in Hong Kong. Several facets combine to make the mission worthy of note—the Hildesheim Mission was a German missionary society operating in the British colony of Hong Kong; it was one of the few missionary societies created ‘by women for women’ (p.16); and it carried out the specific mission of serv…
Between the Global and the Local
In the shadow of empire
This article examines the life and ideas of Josef Schmidlin, the founder of Catholic ‘missionary science’ and the most influential German Catholic missionary theorist of the first half of the twentieth century. An admirer of the German Protestant missionary theologian Gustav Warneck, Schmidlin often appears in the historiography as a forerunner of the Protestant–Catholic ecumenical collaboration that emerged after the Second World War. Yet a clos…
Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China
The late nineteenth-century age of empire was also an age of anti-superstition. In China, Western missionaries, diplomats and travellers labelled practices that resisted Western technologies and ideas as 'superstitious'. This article examines how a group of Qing scholar-officials, all members of the diplomatic corps, interpreted and ultimately defended these customs. Conventionally viewed as tragic figures unable to transcend a 'Sinocentric' worl…
Decolonizing church
Calls to ‘decolonize’ abound. Earlier discussions of decolonization dwelt mainly on the
The Perils of Human Exceptionalism
“Grains of Truth”
This article examines the intellectual formation of Johannes Schütte, Superior General of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and a central figure in the drafting of Ad Gentes Divinitus , the Second Vatican Council’s 1965 decree on mission. Drawing on Schütte’s missionary writings and SVD archival materials, this article argues that his decade in China – which ended in imprisonment and expulsion by Communist authorities in the early 1950s – deci…
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