Friday, October 18, 2019


IAN JOHNSON. The Eastern Jesus. A review of R.S. Sugirtharajah’s “Jesus in Asia”

Over the past few years, the authorities in Beijing have given churches across the country orders to “Sinicize” their faith. According to detailed five-year plans formulated by both Catholic and Protestant organizations, much of this process involves the predictable palaver of state control: “to actively practice core values of socialism, love the motherland passionately, support the leadership of the Communist Party, obey the law and serve society.”1
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