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Premillennial and Countercultural Faith and Its Production and Reception in the Chinese Context
Brandner, Tobias
Brandner, Tobias
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"The goal of this essay is to reach a deeper understanding of the receptivity towards Pentecostal belief in the Chinese context. The essay uncovers cultural and historical factors that made Chinese people inclined to Pentecostal faith, particularly its premillennialist theology. For this purpose, it analyzes the presence of millenarian motives through several examples, the Back to Jerusalem Movement and the work of Yuan Zhi Ming as present-day examples, and the millenarianism of 19th century Taiping, the Buddhist White Lotus Movement that lasted from the 12th to the 19th century, and some Daoist movements of the late Han dynasty as historical examples. It shows how the Chinese context shaped premillennialist faith, and how this historical view has been appropriated and adapted to the Chinese self-understanding. All the examples show a specific pessimistic and countercultural view of history that shapes the political theology and the theology of history of Pentecostal and other revivalist Christians in China. "
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2011
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