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The Christian apologist Arnobius (died c. 330) claimed in his work Against the Heathen: Book II, that Christianity had reached the land of "Serica"—an ancient Roman name for northern China. [14] However, to date, there is little to no archaeological evidence or knowledge about the pre-Church of the East classical Chinese and/or Tocharian church.
The treaties ending the two opium wars opened up China to missionary endeavor and some missionaries believed that the opium wars might be part of God's plan to make China a Christian nation. [40] Later, as the social message of the missionaries began to compete with evangelism as a priority, the missionaries became more forthright in opposing ...
"Direction of Endeavor for Chinese Christianity in the Construction of New China", [1] commonly known as "The Christian Manifesto" or "The Three-Self Manifesto", [2] was a political manifesto of Protestants in China whereby they backed the newly founded People's Republic of China (PRC) and the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
740 – Irish monks reach Iceland [54] 771 – Charlemagne becomes king and will decree that sermons be given in the vernacular. He also commissioned Bible translations. [55] 781 – Xi'an Stele erected near Xi'an (China) to commemorate the propagation in China of the Luminous Religion, thus providing a written record of a Christian presence in ...
The 1800s witnessed the expansion of Christianity beyond the isolated areas of the Treaty Ports by thousands of new missionaries who entered the interior of China. Western missionaries spread Christianity rapidly through the foreign-occupied coastal cities; the Taiping Rebellion was connected in its origins to the missionary activity.
Christianity may have existed earlier in China, but the first documented introduction was during the Tang dynasty (618–907) A Christian mission under the leadership of the priest Alopen (described variously as Persian, Syriac, or Nestorian) was known to have arrived in 635, where he and his followers received an Imperial Edict allowing for ...
Christianity was not new to the Mongols, as many had practiced Christianity of the Church of the East since the 7th century (see Christianity among the Mongols). However, the overthrow of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty by the Ming dynasty in 1368 resulted in a strong assimilatory pressure on China's Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities, and ...
A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II: 1500–1900 (2003) excerpt; Mong, Ambrose. Guns and Gospels: Imperialism and Evangelism in China (James Clarke Company, 2016). Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions (1986), Global coverage over 19 centuries in 624 pages; online book also see. online review