Basel Mission and Revolutions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China: Debating Societal Renewal
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This article analyzes how the Basel missionaries interpreted the nineteenth- and twentieth-century revolutionary changes in China. After a short historical overview, it assesses the different aspects and roots of what implicitly constituted the political theology of the Basel Mission. In the body part of the essay it analyzes documents written by missionaries (letters, reports written to the home committee) to understand how the missionaries saw the epochal changes that they witnessed: the Taiping Rebellion in the nineteenth century and the political changes taking place between 1911–1949. A final section considers how timely the past Basel missionaries’ political views are in present-day China and how they are reflected in parts of recent Chinese political theology.
摘要
文章分析了巴塞尔传教士如何解读19世纪和20世纪中国革命性的变化。经过一个简短的历史概述，它评估了隐含构成巴塞尔宣教的政治神学的不同方面和根源。在文章的正文部分，它分析了由传教士（信件，写给家庭委员会的报告）写的文件，了解传教士们如何看待他们目击到的划时代的变化：包括19世纪太平天国的叛乱，1911年至1949年之间发生的政治变化。最后部分考虑了过去的巴塞尔传教士的政治观点对当今的中国是多么及时，并反映了部分近期的中国政治神学。
Resumen
El artículo analiza cómo interpretaron los misioneros de Basilea los cambios dramáticos ocurridos en China en los siglos xix y xx. Luego de una breve reseña histórica, evalúa las raíces y los diferentes aspectos que constituían, de forma implícita, la teología política de la Misión de Basilea. El cuerpo del ensayo analiza documentos escritos por misioneros (cartas, informes escritos al comité de la misión) para entender cómo los misioneros vieron los cambios significativos que presenciaron: la Rebelión Taiping en el siglo xix y los cambios políticos que se dieron entre 1911–1949. La sección considera cuán oportuna es la visión política de los misioneros de Basilea en la China actual y cómo se ve reflejada en ciertas partes de la reciente teología política china.
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Basel Mission and Revolutions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China: Debating Societal Renewal
In: Mission StudiesSearch for other papers by Tobias Brandner in
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Abstract
This article analyzes how the Basel missionaries interpreted the nineteenth- and twentieth-century revolutionary changes in China. After a short historical overview, it assesses the different aspects and roots of what implicitly constituted the political theology of the Basel Mission. In the body part of the essay it analyzes documents written by missionaries (letters, reports written to the home committee) to understand how the missionaries saw the epochal changes that they witnessed: the Taiping Rebellion in the nineteenth century and the political changes taking place between 1911–1949. A final section considers how timely the past Basel missionaries’ political views are in present-day China and how they are reflected in parts of recent Chinese political theology.
摘要
文章分析了巴塞尔传教士如何解读19世纪和20世纪中国革命性的变化。经过一个简短的历史概述，它评估了隐含构成巴塞尔宣教的政治神学的不同方面和根源。在文章的正文部分，它分析了由传教士（信件，写给家庭委员会的报告）写的文件，了解传教士们如何看待他们目击到的划时代的变化：包括19世纪太平天国的叛乱，1911年至1949年之间发生的政治变化。最后部分考虑了过去的巴塞尔传教士的政治观点对当今的中国是多么及时，并反映了部分近期的中国政治神学。
Resumen
El artículo analiza cómo interpretaron los misioneros de Basilea los cambios dramáticos ocurridos en China en los siglos xix y xx. Luego de una breve reseña histórica, evalúa las raíces y los diferentes aspectos que constituían, de forma implícita, la teología política de la Misión de Basilea. El cuerpo del ensayo analiza documentos escritos por misioneros (cartas, informes escritos al comité de la misión) para entender cómo los misioneros vieron los cambios significativos que presenciaron: la Rebelión Taiping en el siglo xix y los cambios políticos que se dieron entre 1911–1949. La sección considera cuán oportuna es la visión política de los misioneros de Basilea en la China actual y cómo se ve reflejada en ciertas partes de la reciente teología política china.
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