Building a Discipline of the Bible with a Chinese Contextual Awareness

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Chapter 1 Building a Discipline of the Bible with a Chinese Contextual Awareness

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Pages:: 33–46

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469440_003

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This paper focuses on the nature and approach of biblical studies in the Chinese context. First, in discussing the transition of Chinese terminology for the biblical studies from “research on the Bible” (圣经研究, sheng jing yan jiu) to “a discipline of the Bible” (圣经学, sheng jing xue), the author argues for an independent biblical studies with theological dimension. It would engage the long-standing historical Judeo-Christian scriptural tradition, rather than focusing narrowly on the tendencies of modern biblical criticism. Nevertheless, it requires Chinese scholars of the Bible to have a firm grasp of and draw inspiration from modern methods of biblical criticism and to cultivate the intellectual practices of “close reading and in-depth interpretation.” For example, the historical-literary interpretation of extra-biblical materials, as well as considering the text’s Sitz im Leben and ideological background, can liberate Chinese scholars from one-sided, stereotypical theological interpretations of the Bible. Therefore, doing biblical theology demands an “integrated innovation” approach for the construction of an independent Judeo-Christian scriptural and intellectual identity in the Chinese multi-religious and multi-scriptural context. The awareness of the particularity and comprehensiveness of biblical studies in China is proposed so that biblical scholars can bring the Bible, as the scriptures of the Judeo-Christian tradition, into in-depth dialogue and interactive learning with Chinese culture and the Chinese classics, offering a valuable impetus for the indigenization of Christianity. The author argues that the supporting correlation between the “three pillars”, namely, the Bible, the person of Jesus Christ, and the Church, all of them are both “of flesh” and “of spirit”, would be the foundation for an independent biblical theology in Chinese cultural context.

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Yearbook of Chinese Theology (2021)

Series: Yearbook of Chinese Theology, Volume: 7

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004469440

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 12 Nov 2021

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Part 1 Systematic Theology and Chinese Humanities

Part 2 Practical Theology in Chinese Context

Part 3 Church History in China

Part 4 Biblical and Scriptural Studies

Part 5 Comparative Religious and Cultural Studies

Part 6 A Review and Academic Report

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