取舍之间:中华基督教会财政运作中的西方教会影响

Between the Pros and Cons:the Western Church’s Impact on Financial Management of Church of Christ in China

教会本色化运动兴起后,作为华人本土合一教会代表的中华基督教会,以实现教会自立为目标,密切与西方教会的联系,争取经费的自主权,接受西方差会津贴和技术支持,接收西方教会在华产业,归并西方教会在华不同宗派的教会组织,试图提升本土教会在差传体制中的地位,实现中国基督教会的复兴。然而西方教会有着自身的考量,中西教会就财政议题存在竞争,二者关系徘徊不定,莫可明了。中华基督教会追求财政运作自主是谋求自身发展的一次尝试,但在西方教会的进逼下措置失宜,其试图开创新局,走向本色化的努力最终沦为空谈。

After the upsurge of indigenization movement of Christianity,The Church of Christ in China,as a representative of local united church for Chinese,set'self-reliance'as its goal and had its close relations with western church.It strived for autonomy of funds,accepted subsidy of western missionary society and technical support,received property of western church in China,and merged church organizations of different sects in China of western church togethe,to promotethe position of local churches in missions systems,and to achieve rejuvenation of Chinese Christian Church at the same time.However,western churches had their own considerations,and there were competitions between Chinese and Western churches in financial issues.Therefore,relationship between them is indecisive.Pursuit of Chinese Christian Church for independent financial operation is an attempt to seek its self-development.However,it made inappropriate arrangements under the high preesure by western churches,and was not able to creat a new situation.The Indigenization of Christianity failed at last.