Discussions on Contextualization and Evangelization in Modern Chinese Churches

Discussions on Contextualization and Evangelization in Modern Chinese Churches

LEUNG Ka Lun

This paper reviews discussions on the contextualization of Chinese churches in the last century. The writer argues that the task of evangelizing China that foreign missionaries and native pastors launched in the past could not be regarded as a failure. They have achieved significant successes in adapting the Christian faith to Chinese culture. There is no ground for asserting that insensitivity to contextualization was the main reason why China has not been successfully evangelized. People who bring this charge against the whole enterprise of evangelizing China in the past centuries usually have a political agenda to save Chinese culture as they perceive it.