Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
• Published by: Regnery Publishing, Inc. December 25, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1596980257
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1596980259
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Review
David Aikman writes with conviction about the broad scope and deep roots of Christianity in China. It is a compelling -- James Lilley, former US ambassador to China and former US representative to Taiwan --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Description
This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant and its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity and what this change means to the global balance of power.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Changing the Global Balance of Power (Hardcover) In David Aikman's book he has continued the 25-year old stories and half-truths that the Three Self Movement in China's Protestant community is a tool of the Communist government. Bishop K. H. Ting, who helped as few others, bring the government in the late 1970s to allow the churches to begin to re-open, is one of the finest scholars and Christians I ever met. Knowing him personally I can assure the reader he is not a fellow traveler or Communist. In May 1989 he wrote the Central Committee in Beijing not to harm the demonstrating students in Tiananmen Square. Noted "house church" pastors hid during that time rather than stand up for freedom. I was in his home in Nanjing when he was writing the letter and in Beijing among the students days before the army came in. Southern Baptists did not begin in the 1980s to do covert work in China as Mr. Aikman writes. We began by working in the open. It was not until the fundamentalist take-over of the Southern Baptist Convention, USA, that covert missionary work began in various ways in China. That was a mistake. Cloak and Dagger missionaries have no place in the ministry of the Prince of Peace. I wish Mr. Aikman, with his skill in writing and his wide experience, had given a broader and more complete picture of Protestant Christianity in China today.