After Imperialism

The Editors: Richard R. Cook, Associate Professor of Mission History and Global Christianity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois.David W. Pao, Professor of New Testament and Chair of the New Testament Department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Richard R. Cook and David W. PaoAbbreviations1 Modern Evangelicalism and Global Christian Identity: Promise and Peril as Seen through the Eyes of a North American Church Historian / Douglas A. Sweeney2 Missions, Cultural Imperialism, and the Development of the Chinese Church / Ka Lun Leung3 Overcoming Missions Guilt: Robert Morrison, Liang Fa, and the Opium Wars / Richard R. Cook4 Chinese Evangelicals and Social Concerns: A Historical and Comparative Review / Kevin Xiyi Yao5 The Old Testament in Its Cultural Context: Implications of 'Contextual Criticism' for Chinese and North American Christian Identity / K. Lawson Younger Jr.6 'Holy War' and the Universal God: Reading the Old Testament Holy War Texts in a Biblical-Theological and Postcolonial Setting / Tremper Longman III7 'Holy War' and the Universal God: Reading the New Testament Conquest Accounts in a Postcolonial Setting / David W. Pao8 The Group and the Individual in Salvation: The Witness of Paul / Frank Thielman9 Boundaries in 'In-Christ Identity': Paul's View on Table Fellowship and Its Implications for Ethnic Identities / Maureen W. Yeung10 'Who Am I?' Theology and Identity for Children of the Dragon / Robert J. Priest11 Chinese Contextual Theology: A Possible Reconstruction? / David Y. T. Lee12 Forging Evangelical Identity: Integration of Models of Theological Education in the Global Context / Carver T. Yu

'This volume helpfully outlines some ways in which imperial readings of the Bible and Christian history have led to the inexcusable importation of Western divisions into Chinese church life.' Lawrence Braschi, Church Times, 30 November 2012'[David Pao's work] opens a way to overcome missionary paralysis for fear of propagating or capitulating to neo-colonialism.' Beau Pihlaja, Theological Book Review, Volume 24, No 2, 2012"After Imperialism is good in pointing out the pietistic and dispensational views of many of the unregistered churches and the false Western expectation that the growing church in China has political democracy as part of its vision."Ray Porter, Evangelicals Now, August 2013