Inculturation of christian pictures in the republic of China

Xiaobai Chu

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190909796.013.50

Inculturation of christian pictures in the republic of China

Xiaobai Chu^*

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Department of Chinese Language and Literature

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Abstract

During the Chinese Christianity inculturation movement of the 1920-1930s in the Republic of China, many Christian pictures were produced and spread quite widely, including the icons “painted” (actually written as spiritual exercise through paintings) by teachers and students in Fu Jen Catholic University, the comic-strip book published by the Chinese Christian Painting Press of the Gospel, the pictures in the Kung Kao Po (a Catholic newspaper), and in the books published by Tou-se-we Painting House. On the basis of particular characteristics of these images, this essay attempts an artistic and theological analysis of the paintings, analyzing the painters’ effort to foster the inculturation of Christian pictures in China.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	691-711
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9780190909796
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190909796.013.50
State	Published - 1 Jan 2021

Keywords

Chinese christian painting press of the gospel
Christian pictures
Fu jen catholic university
Inculturation
The kung kao po
The republic of china
Tou-se-we painting house

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