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A history of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong: 1913-1993. From isolation to ecumenicity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A history of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong: 1913-1993. From isolation to ecumenicity./
Author:	LeMond, John Gary.
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05, Section: A, page: 2164.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-05A.
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9629095

A history of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong: 1913-1993. From isolation to ecumenicity.
LeMond, John Gary.

A history of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong: 1913-1993. From isolation to ecumenicity. - 256 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05, Section: A, page: 2164.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton Theological Seminary, 1996.

In 1913, the Central China Union Lutheran Theological Seminary was founded in northern Hupei Province, China, by four Lutheran missionary organizations from Scandinavia and the United States. For thirty-five years the seminary educated Lutheran students for ministry in Lutheran congregations throughout China, managing to survive anti-foreign sentiment, warlordism, Japanese invasion and civil war. While far from the politically and socially turbulent coastal areas upon which the Western Powers were having the most influence, the seminary nevertheless felt the force of the revolutionary winds which were sweeping China. At the same time; although political and social change swirled around it, the Lutheran Theological Seminary found itself in a very secure position denominationally. Due to comity agreements among Protestant denominations, the Lutherans were protected from encroachment by other denominations within their sphere of influence.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Asian history.

A history of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong: 1913-1993. From isolation to ecumenicity.
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520 $a In 1913, the Central China Union Lutheran Theological Seminary was founded in northern Hupei Province, China, by four Lutheran missionary organizations from Scandinavia and the United States. For thirty-five years the seminary educated Lutheran students for ministry in Lutheran congregations throughout China, managing to survive anti-foreign sentiment, warlordism, Japanese invasion and civil war. While far from the politically and socially turbulent coastal areas upon which the Western Powers were having the most influence, the seminary nevertheless felt the force of the revolutionary winds which were sweeping China. At the same time; although political and social change swirled around it, the Lutheran Theological Seminary found itself in a very secure position denominationally. Due to comity agreements among Protestant denominations, the Lutherans were protected from encroachment by other denominations within their sphere of influence.
520 $a This situation changed drastically in December, 1948, when the decision was made by the missionary leadership to move the seminary to Hong Kong, in order to avoid being captured by the Chinese Communists. Temporary facilities were provided by the Christian Mission to Buddhists, a Scandinavian organization located on Tao Fong Shan, a mountain in the New Territories of Hong Kong. At this point the seminary was thrown into an entirely different world, far from the familiar surroundings of Central China. They were outsiders, and perhaps even more unsettling for the seminary and the churches it represented, they found themselves in competition with scores of other Protestant groups which had also found refuge in Hong Kong.
520 $a Over the intervening forty-five years, the seminary struggled to come to terms with this new reality and create a new, more ecumenical self-identity. Today, the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong, educates Chinese students from various denominations, from throughout Southeast Asia.
520 $a A narrative history of the seminary, tracing the ecumenical development of the institution and based primarily on documentary sources, this study shows that the Lutherans in China and Hong Kong struggled constantly to balance their identity as a confessional body and their place in the larger body of Christ; to react to and make sense of the historical developments that were molding the China area; and to create a theological institution that reflected these realities. While the vast majority of the seminary's history was dominated by Western mission agencies, this study points out that the school's survival was insured only after Chinese leadership was installed, and a distinctly Chinese concept of ecumenism was allowed to operate. Rather than relying solely on Western concepts of ecumenism, the Chinese found unity in their ethnic identity, which transcended the conciliar/evangelical divisions that historically have defined the ecumenical movement.
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