圣俗之间:近代潮汕地区的基督徒与教会

Between Deity and Mortal: the Modern Christians and Churches in Chao - Shan Area

教会方面单一的普遍主义尺度与中国社会环境极其复杂的多样性,构成了近代基督徒和教会存在的奇特样式。在灵与肉的强大张力之中,近代早期潮汕基督徒由生存而信仰,在努力寻求生存出路的时候,逐渐走向十字架。他们的皈依不只是一种地域性的经验,而是具有了某种普遍意义的事件。

The Church's single Universalism and the extremely complex multitudes of modern Chinese environment constituted the queer patterns of modem Christians and churches. Pressed simultaneously from both sides, body and soul, in their hard quest for way of living, the early modem Christians in Chao - Shan area went from the way of livelihood to that of being disciples, and gradually towards Cross. Their convert to Christianity was not only a regionalism experience but also an event in universalism sense.