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Basel Mission and Revolutions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China:

LA121239

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Basel Mission and Revolutions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China:

[Article]

Debating Societal Renewal

Tobias Brandner

Leiden

Brill

This article analyzes how the Basel missionaries interpreted the nineteenth- and twentieth-century revolutionary changes in China. After a short historical overview, it assesses the different aspects and roots of what implicitly constituted the political theology of the Basel Mission. In the body part of the essay it analyzes documents written by missionaries (letters, reports written to the home committee) to understand how the missionaries saw the epochal changes that they witnessed: the Taiping Rebellion in the nineteenth century and the political changes taking place between 1911-1949. A final section considers how timely the past Basel missionaries' political views are in present-day China and how they are reflected in parts of recent Chinese political theology. This article analyzes how the Basel missionaries interpreted the nineteenth- and twentieth-century revolutionary changes in China. After a short historical overview, it assesses the different aspects and roots of what implicitly constituted the political theology of the Basel Mission. In the body part of the essay it analyzes documents written by missionaries (letters, reports written to the home committee) to understand how the missionaries saw the epochal changes that they witnessed: the Taiping Rebellion in the nineteenth century and the political changes taking place between 1911-1949. A final section considers how timely the past Basel missionaries' political views are in present-day China and how they are reflected in parts of recent Chinese political theology.

2018

7-30

Mission Studies

35/1

1573-3831

Basel Mission

Christianity in China

history of the Basel Mission

Mission in China

mission movement and politics

political theology

Taiping Rebellion

Theodor Hamberg

Tobias Brandner

10.1163/15733831-12341545

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[Article]

275578

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