Chinese Calvinism, Rapidly Growing

[HammerStone]

Although Calvinism is shrinking in western Europe and North America, it is experiencing an extraordinary success in China. I spent some time on Monday talking to the Rev May Tan, from Singapore, where the overseas Chinese community has close links with mainland China. The story she told of the spread of Calvinist religion as an elite religion in China was quite extraordinary. There may be some parallels with the growth of Calvinism in South Korea, where the biggest presbyterian churches in the world are to be found, but it's absolutely unlike the pattern in Africa and Latin America. There, the fastest growing forms of Christianity are pentecostal, and they are spreading among the poor.

Article: http://www.guardian....in-christianity

Interesting.

 

[Rex]

I know a missionary from china, he married a Chinese lady, and the last I spoke with him his wife and two boys were going back.

the two major works of St Augustine, the Confessions and the City of God, into Chinese directly from Latin. Gradually all the major works of the first centuries of the Christian tradition are being translated directly from the original languages into Chinese.
Proverbs 18:17

Phil 1:15-18
[sup]15 [/sup]Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill: [sup]16 [/sup]The former[sup][b][/sup] preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains; [sup]17 [/sup]but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. [sup]18 [/sup]What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

 

[rockytopva]

Hope they don;t tor

Article: http://www.guardian....in-christianity

Interesting.

Hopefully they won't torch any Michael Servetus's! :lol:

 

[Rex]

and your signature theology E=mc/2

Hope they don;t tor


Hopefully they won't torch any Michael Servetus's! :lol: