My dissertation-turned-book is now available from Brill—a religion–science–Daoism “trialogue” on Jingjiao, the earliest Chinese Christianity established by missionaries of the Church of the East. I am grateful to my mentor, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, for the foreword and for his guidance during my doctoral studies, and to Kirsteen Kim, Stephen Bevans, and Miikka Ruokanen for including the book in their Theology and Mission in World Christianity series.
The book
- Title: Science, Religion(s), and Spirit(s) in China: A Constructive Chinese Theology of Creation Based on Jingjiao’s Qi-tological Theology, with a New English Translation of the Entire Tang Jingjiao Corpus
- Publisher: Brill (Leiden / Boston), 2025
- Series: Theology and Mission in World Christianity, vol. 43
- Access: Open access (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) — free PDF and EPUB
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004749573
About the book
I argue that, by foregrounding the person and work of the Holy Spirit within Jingjiao’s theology of creation against the backdrop of China’s spirit world, the triadic and interdisciplinary interaction among theology, science (and technology), and various religions in the Chinese context plays a crucial role in formulating a Chinese theology of creation appropriate for the techno-scientific and pluralistic landscape of the third millennium. The method is Embodied Critical Realism, which combines the critical realism of McGrath, Pannenberg, and Robert John Russell with a cognitive-linguistic, embodied realism.
The book is available for free download (open access) as PDF and EPUB:
Dr. Jacob Chengwei Feng 
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