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To: NYer

If only they could see that Christian theology as it is, is best for their country.


6 posted on 08/11/2014 11:31:36 AM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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It would be best for every one of them.

The missions won’t stop and there are so many there that now know the truth.


9 posted on 08/11/2014 11:35:30 AM PDT by boycott
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To: DannyTN
If only they could see that Christian theology as it is, is best for their country.
....Calvinism isn't a religion of subservience to any government. The great national myths of Calvinist cultures are all of wars against imperialist oppressors: the Dutch against the Spanish, the Scots against the English; the Americans against the British. So when the Chinese house churches first emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution in the 80s and 90s "They began to search what theology will support and inform [them]. They read Luther and said, 'not him'. So they read Calvin, and they said 'him, because he has a theology of resistance.' Luther can't teach them or inform them how to deal with a government that is opposition."
-- from the thread Chinese Calvinism flourishes

18 posted on 08/11/2014 12:05:28 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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