"This paper identifies commonalities between Marxian economic principles and the socio-economic goals of Social Gospel missionaries in China in the quarter century between 1924 and 1949. It argues that the unbreachable divisions between missionaries, including those who advocated for a "Christian communism," and the communist party were rooted, on the Christian side, in a rejection of violence and coercive methods of policy implementation rather than in opposition to socialism. On the communist side opposition was not to specific tenets of Christianity but to foreign-funding and leadership and to the perception of American Christians as agents of an imperialist country. This paper identifies commonalities between Marxian economic principles and the socio-economic goals of Social Gospel missionaries in China in the quarter century between 1924 and 1949. It argues that the unbreachable divisions between missionaries, including those who advocated for a "Christian communism," and the communist party were rooted, on the Christian side, in a rejection of violence and coercive methods of policy implementation rather than in opposition to socialism. On the communist side opposition was not to specific tenets of Christianity but to foreign-funding and leadership and to the perception of American Christians as agents of an imperialist country."
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2009
توصيف ظاهري
168-213
عنوان
Social Sciences and Missions
شماره جلد
22/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1874-8945
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
CHRISTIAN COMMUNISM
اصطلاح موضوعی
COOPERATIVES
اصطلاح موضوعی
RED THEOLOGY
اصطلاح موضوعی
RURAL RECONSTRUCTION
اصطلاح موضوعی
SOCIAL GOSPEL
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )