Documents of the Three-Self Movement : source materials for the study of the Protestant Church in Communist China
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog1170
- Publication Date
- 1963
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BR 1285 N35 1963
- Corporate Author
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Division of Foreign Missions Far Eastern Office
- Place of Publication
- New York NY
- Publication Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- xvii, 209 p. ; 27 x 17.8 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "Compiled and published by the Far Eastern Office, Division of Foreign Missions, National Council of the Church of Christ in the U.S.A., Wallace C. Merwin, Executive Secretary [and] Francis P. Jones, Consultant and Editor".
- "A number of Chinese Christian leaders who were attracted by the socialist program of the Communist Party ... worked out a program of 1. Liquidating the whole missionary enterprise; 2. Cutting off the dependence of Chinese churches upon foreign funds; and 3. Setting up a new overall organization which should work to equate support of the new regime with patriotism. By early 1951 the missionaries had either left the country or been rendered ineffective, and the Edict of Dec. 29, 1950, cut off all foreign support of church enterprises. The third step required a longer time for its implementation, but it succeeded in placing the China Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement in a position of complete authority over all the Protestant churches of China. .... In the history of the Three-Self Movement six accomplishments stand out, and they are all reflected in the documents given herewith". -- Intro., p. iii.
- Contents: Introduction / Wallace C. Merwin and Francis P. Jones -- Biographical Index -- The Present-Day Tragedy of Christianity dated March 31, 1948 / Y.T. Wu -- First Message to Christians in China dated March 1, 1948 -- Second Message dated November 10, 1948 -- Third Message dated December 10, 1949 -- Y.T. Wu on Reforming Christianity -- Message from Chinese Christians to Mission Boards Abroad -- The Christian Manifesto -- Sheng Kung Hui Pastoral Letter dated July 5th, 1950 -- Peking Edict of December 29, 1950 -- Church of Christ in China Report to Mission Boards Abroad dated Feb. 21, 1951 -- Methodist Patriotic Covenant -- Methods for Dealing with Christian Bodies -- Lu Tubg-yi's Speech -- Y.T. Wu's Report [May 8, 1951] -- The United Declaration [May 8, 1951] -- The Three-Self Preparatory Council -- The Christian Literature Society Denounced -- Advice on Accusation -- An Autobiographical Confession: Y.T. Wu -- How My Political Thinking Has Changed / Marcus Cheng -- My Self-Examination / Isaac Wei -- Helen Djang's Conversion -- The Three-Anti Campaign and T.C. Chao -- Lu Chih-wei Denounced by his Daughter -- Father, Long Before Creation, hymn -- Freedom Through Truth / Y.T. Wu -- Y.T. Wu's Report to the July 1954 Conference in Peking -- Conference Actions in 1954 -- Wang-Ming-tao: We, Because of Faith -- H.H. Ts'ui: A False Faith Cannot Fool People -- Wang-Ming-tao's "Self-Examination" -- Report on the China Christian Three-self Patriotic Movement from July 1954 to March 1956 -- Letter to Chinese Christians from Peking Conference of March 1956 -- Address by Kiang Wen-han -- Address by "Brother" T.C. Chao -- Address by Dr. H.H. Ts'ui -- Bishops' [of the Chung Hua Sheng Kui] Pastoral Letter of 1956 -- Shanghai Manifesto -- T.C. Chao on America -- Marcus Cheng's Speech -- Christian Theism / Bishop K.H. Ting -- Letter to Hungarian Christians -- Church and State / Kiang Wen-han -- The Future of Christianity in China / W.T. Yu -- Imperialism: Exploiter of Religion -- Unificatin of Worship -- My Recognition of the Communist Party / Y.T. Wu -- A Glorious Ten Years / Y.T. Wu -- The Second General Conference of the Three-Self Movement / Wu Y-fang -- Constitution of the Committee of the China Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement -- The Three-Self Standing Committee of 1961 -- Y.T. Wu on the New Missionary Strategy -- Index of Documents in Chronological Order.
- Added Entry
- Jones, Francis P.
- Merwin, Wallace C.
- Chao, T.C., 1888-1979
- Cheng, Marcus, 1884-1963
- Kiang, Wen-Han
- Ting, K.H. (Ding Guangxun), 1915-2012
- Wu, Y.T. (Yao-tsung), 1890-1979
- Subjects
- Christianity - China - 20th century
- Three-Self Movement - History
- China - Church history - 20th century
- Holy Catholic Church in China (Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui) - History
- Call Number
- BR 1285 N35 1963
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)