Category: News & Talks

On July 24–25, 2025, I organized an international symposium at Fuller Theological Seminary on Chinese Christianity, its centennial mission, and Chinese Bible translation. Fifteen papers were delivered by scholars from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Israel, Canada, and the United States, with more than eighty attending in person. I am grateful to the sponsors: Fuller’s…

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At the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies I presented a methodological paper and joined a panel on Watchman Nee. Papers 1. “Pentecost Historiography: Methodology for Retelling the History of Chinese Christianity from the Perspective of the Spirit.” From the abstract: “Academic studies of Chinese Pentecostal history and theology usually begin with…

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At the Christianity and Chinese Modernization Forum 2024, held at Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, I presented a comparative study of how two indigenous East Asian theologians received the theory of evolution. The paper “Evolution, Christianity, and Asian Modernization: A Dialogue between Xie Honglai 谢洪赉 (1873–1916) and Uemura Masahisa 植村正久 (1858–1925)’s Theologies of Science.” Abstract The…

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At the 76th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, whose theme was “Global Evangelicalism,” I presented on the Christology of Watchman Nee. The paper “Watchman Nee’s Christology and Global Evangelicalism.” Event Event: Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) 76th Annual Meeting — “Global Evangelicalism” Venue: San Diego, California, USA Dates: November 19–22, 2024

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I presented (online) at PHAICON 2024 on a constructive Chinese theology of deification in conversation with posthumanism and transhumanism. The paper “Qi, Post-humanism, and Deification: Toward a Constructive Chinese Theology of Deification.” Summary The paper asks how Chinese Christianities have responded to posthumanism and transhumanism, and develops a constructive Chinese theology of deification (theosis) drawing…

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At the Tyndale Fellowship Conference in Cambridge, I presented on the earliest doctrine of creation written in Chinese—that of the Tang-dynasty Church of the East—read in conversation with science and religion. The paper “‘Looking up the creation in piety, and being fascinated by the Artisan-King’: The Earliest Doctrine of Creation in Chinese in Trialogue with…

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At the 33rd Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity, held at Yale Divinity School, I presented on the work of the Holy Spirit in the earliest mission to China. The paper “The Wind of the Spirit Is Blowing East: Ancestors, Deities, and the Holy Spirit in the Earliest Mission…

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I presented on a new theological method for bringing theology, science, and religion into a single conversation. The paper “具身批判实在论作为神学-科学-宗教三方对话的新神学方法” (“Embodied Critical Realism as a New Theological Method for the Theology–Science–Religion Trialogue”). Summary The paper introduces Embodied Critical Realism as a method for a three-way dialogue among theology, science, and religion, moving through the necessity…

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At the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies I presented a Pentecostal reading of the earliest Christian mission to China. The paper “The Pentecost in the Eyes of a Stranger in Ancient China: A Pentecostal Analysis of the Refugees’ Communication of the ‘Luminous’ Gospel in the Tang Dynasty.” Event Event: Society for…

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I presented at Fuller’s Center for Missiological Research on the theology of creation in Jingjiao, the earliest Chinese Christianity. The paper “Jingjiao’s Qi-tological Theology of Creation in Theology-Science-Religion (Daoism) Trialogue.” Summary The paper begins from the observation that the Church of the East has been unduly marginalized, misrepresented, and misunderstood in the global Christian community,…

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