Editor's Note Who is Deng Shaoguang? Christian belief holds that since man is not the creator, he must be a creature. From this perspective, man is a member of creation and therefore cannot be discussed apart from his created character. The theory of man cannot be established independently of the theory of creation. So, what is this created man like? This is what the special article in this issue of "Sandow Journal" wants to explore. ...

From Quasi-Goddess to Protestant Woman: Martin Luther's Re-imagining of the Virgin Mary CHAN Hiu Ki Contrary to the reluctance of the Protestants to talk about saints and the Virgin Mary today, Martin Luther, the main initiator of the Protestant...

The Suffering Messiah as Christian Ingroup Prototype in 1 Peter Joyce Wai-Lan SUN This essay investigates the role and implications of emphasizing Jesus Christ as the Suffering Messiah in 1 Peter for the social identity formation of its targeted readers....

Paul's Messianic Idea in the Letter to the Romans

Another Take on the JohannineTemple Cleansing Crux: A Perspective from Jewish Messianism Josaphat C. TAM John 2:13-22 has been an interpretive crux throughout the history of Johannine studies. There has been a long controversy as to whether there is only...

The Conflation of Messianic Traditions in Mark's Composite Scriptural References Jonathan W. LO In this paper, I will examine Mark's portrayal of Jesus as Messiah from the perspective of his use of composite references to Old Testament scripture....

The Messianic View of the Dead Sea Scrolls Tony HK SHER “Messiah” denotes someone who is being anointed with oil. In the Old Testament, the term is generally used to describe a person anointed and thereby installed to a certain position,...

The Profile of Messianism in 2 Maccabees Francis BORCHARDT This article explores the possibility of finding messianic figures in 2 Maccabees, a Jewish work written in Greek during the second century BCE. It argues that Judas Maccabeus, a central character...

Christianity, Confucianism, Chinese Family and Modernization:A Reflection from Max Weber's Religious Sociology HUNG Tsz Wan Andrew This paper explores Max Weber's three criticisms of Confucianism: lack of tension between this world and the...

Church, Worship, and Preaching from the Perspectives of Gunton and Webster Andres S. TANG The aim of this paper is not to discuss what preaching is, nor to teach how to preach. Rather it is to re-think how to think theologically about preaching .We cannot...