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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You is a 1998 book written by John C. Maxwell and published by Thomas Nelson. [1] It is one of several books by Maxwell on the subject of leadership. [2] It is the book for which he is best-known. [3]
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.
Maxwell was born in Garden City, Michigan, in 1947. [3] An evangelical Christian, he followed his father into the ministry. He completed a bachelor's degree at Circleville Bible College in 1969, a Master of Divinity degree at Azusa Pacific University, and a Doctor of Ministry degree at Fuller Theological Seminary. He currently resides in South ...
How Christianity Came to China: A Brief History. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. ISBN 9781451472301. Latourette, Kenneth Scott (1929), A History of Christian Missions in China, New York: Macmillan. Detailed survey, with quotes from many documents but not so much analysis.
The Handbook of Christianity in China is a two-volume series on the history of Christianity in China, edited respectively by Nicholas Standaert and Gary Tiedemann. It is a part of the Handbook of Oriental Studies [ de ] series published by Brill .
"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).
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 ...