Chloë Starr is associate professor of Asian Christianity and theology at Yale University Divinity School. She is the author of Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing, editor of Reading Christian Scriptures in China, and coeditor of The Quest for Gentility in China.
“A rare and prized contribution, this book offers penetrating
analysis of the literary forms and theological contents of major
Chinese texts. Chloe Starr is to be commended for her masterful
work.”—John Yueh-Han Yieh, Virginia Theological Seminary
“This brilliant book by Chloe Starr will become a foundational
study of both the historical foundations of Christianity in
contemporary China and, even more significantly, the Chinese
textual histories and patterns upon which those foundations
rest.”—David Jasper, author of Literature and Theology as a Grammar
of Assent
“This timely book heralds the maturation of a distinctively Chinese
theology. It is illuminated by the author’s reading of the Chinese
texts in their original literary forms and situated in their social
and cultural contexts.”— Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
“This is the most inspiring book on Chinese theology that I have
read. In a captivating literary style, Chloë Starr guides the
reader through the history of Chinese theological texts, examining
their ties to Chinese literary forms.”— Nicolas Standaert,
University of Leuven
“Chloë Starr expertly tracks the diverse theological spectrum of
China, ranging through twentieth-century texts and beyond to
illustrate how Chinese intellectuals and theologians struggled to
make scripture relevant to their particular context.”—Fuk-tsang
Ying, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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