Dr. Jacob Chengwei Feng

  1. “Prayer as Embodied Approach to Deification in Romans 8:1–17: An Interdisciplinary Approach Highlighting the Roles of the Holy Spirit and the Human Spirit,” Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care. Accepted for publication and currently in typesetting.
  2. “The Pentecost in the Eyes of a Stranger in Medieval China: Toward a Chinese Pentecostal Theology of/for/by Refugees,” Pneuma, The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies: 203–23, https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10136.
  3. “Missio Dei and the Universal Priesthood of All Believers: Watchman Nee and Mission of the Local Church Movement,” in Chinese Christian Witness: Identity, Creativity, Transmission and Poetics, edited by Xiaoli Yang and Daryl Ireland, Theology and Mission in World Christianity 38, Leiden: Brill, 2025, forthcoming.
  4. “‘No Distinction between Contemplating the Created Realities and Contemplating the One God’: The Earliest Chinese Natural Theology”, Journal of the Study on Religion and History 1, no. 1 (2025): 62–74.
  5. “编者的话” [From the Editor], Journal for Research of Christianity in China Journal for Research of Christianity in China 24, no. 1 (2025): 1–12.
  6. “基督教中国化进程中的圣经新译与去殖民化主义” [New Chinese Bible Translations and Decolonialism/Postcolonialism in the Progress of the Sinicization of Christianity], Journal for Research of Christianity in China 24, no. 1 (2025): 108–33, http://dx.doi.org/10.29635/JRCC.202506_(24).0004.
  7. “The Wind of the Spirit Is Blowing East: Ancestors, Deities, and the Holy Spirit in the Earliest Mission to China,” International Bulletin of Mission Research 49, no. 2 (2025): 126–38, https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393241305978
  8. “Divine Action in the Flesh: A Cognitive Linguistic Evaluation of Pannenberg’s Theology,” Scottish Journal of Theology. Published online 2025:1–13, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930624000656.
  9. “Deificational Hermeneutics as Theological Interpretation: A Theological Exegesis on 2 Peter 1:1–11,” Religions 15, no. 12 (2024): 1517, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15121557.
  10. “From ‘Bridge’ to ‘Starlink’: An Update on Kang Phee Seng’s Model of Theology and Science Dialogue Toward a Chinese Theology of Science on Creativity,” Theology and Science December, no. 1 (2024), 1–14, https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2024.2436788.
  11. “Deification Seen from the Three Biblical Metaphors in Watchman Nee and Witness Lee: With the Cognitive-Linguistic Interpretive Approach to Metaphors,” in Transformed into the Same Image: Constructive Investigations into the Doctrine of Deification, eds. Paul Copan and Michael M. C. Reardon, Westmount, IL: IVP Academic, 2024, 38–62.
  12. “宣教性教會與教會性宣教：倪柝聲教會論之理論與實踐” [Missional Church and Ecclesial Mission: Theory and Praxis of Watchman Nee’s Ecclesiology], in 薪火相传百年祭[Passing on the Touch of Learning: Celebrating a Hundredth Anniversary of the Local Churches], eds. Daniel L. Li 李靈 and Qinghe Xiao 肖清和. Xinbei: Taiwan Jidujiao wenyi chubanshe [Chinese Christian Literature Council] (in Chinese), 2024, 157–78.
  13. “全球在地語境中的倪柝聲末世論” [Watchman Nee’s Eschatology in the Global Context], in 薪火相传百年祭[Passing on the Touch of Learning: Celebrating a Hundredth Anniversary of the Local Churches], eds. Daniel L. Li 李靈 and Qinghe Xiao 肖清和. Xinbei: Taiwan Jidujiao wenyi chubanshe [Chinese Christian Literature Council] (in Chinese), 2024, 179–94.
  14. “A Contextualized Chinese Theology of Human Nature: Dualistic or Holistic-Integrative? Watchman Nee and Chinese Theology for the Third Millennium,” in Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter from Majority World Perspective, Library of New Testament Studies, eds. Sofanit T. Abebe, Elizabeth W. Mburu, and Abeneazer G. Urga. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2024, 52–70.
  15. “Mission by God’s Living Stones: Watchman Nee’s Missional Exegesis of 1 Peter 2:5–11,” in Reading 1 Peter Missiologically: The Missionary Motive, Message and Methods of 1 Peter, eds. Abeneazer Urga, Jessie Udall, Ed Smither. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Publishing, 2024, 35–50.
  16. “Seven Spirits from Patmos: Towards a Decolonial Chinese Theology for the Third Millennium,” Journal for Research of Christianity in China 21, no. 1 (2023), 182–219, https://doi.org/10.29635/JRCC.202312_(21)).0009.
  17. “The China Aspiration in Light of Jacob’s Narrative (Genesis 25:19–36:43): Toward a Chinese Public Theology for Human Flourishing in the Third Millennium,” International Journal of Sino-Western Studies 25, no. 1 (2023), 81–98, https://doi.org/10.37819/ijsws.25.1760.
  18. “Alister McGrath and China: Toward a Chinese Theology and Science on Transhumanism for the Third Millennium,” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 62, no. 4 (2023), 352–59, https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12830.
  19. “Pneumasis/Pneumafication Based on Romans 8:1–17: Highlighting the Spirit’s Role in Deification.” Religions 14, no. 9 (2023): 1210, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14091210.
  20. “Holistic Wisdom from a Chinese Perspective: Abrahamic Faiths’ Earliest Encounters with China,” Religions 14, no. 9 (2023): 1117, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14091117.
  21. “Christianity’s Earliest Encounter with the Ancient Techno-Scientific China: Critical Lessons from Jingjiao’s Approach,” Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology, New Series 2, no. 1 (2023): 80–103, https://doi.org/10.58913/UJZZ2394.
  22. “Theological Method of Chinese Theology in the Republican Era (1911–1949): A Case Study of Wang Mingdao and Watchman Nee,” Journal of Chinese Theology 9, no. 1 (2023): 38–65, https://doi.org/10.1163/27726606-20230018.
  23. “Addressing the Needham Question from a Theological Perspective: Toward a Chinese Theology of Holistic Wisdom,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 57, no. 2 (2022):299–321, https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12787.
  24. “Against the Tide: The Local Churches’ Ecclesiology and Its Contribution to the Glocal Church,” Journal of The Evangelical Theological Society 65, no. 2 (2022): 239–59.
  25. “希伯来圣经文本之多样性与单一性和圣经汉译” [The Textual Pluriformity vs. Uniformity of the Hebrew Bible and Chinese Bible Translation], Foreign Language Research in China 中国外语研究 3, no. 1 (2017): 89–97 (in Chinese).
  26. “死海古卷中大以赛亚书卷与马所拉文本的比较” [A Comparison of the Great Isaiah Scroll in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Masoretic Text], Journal for the Study of Christian Culture 基督教文化学刊 36, no. Autumn (2016): 213–37 (in Chinese).
  27. “保罗·魏格纳的翻译理论与圣经汉译” [Paul Wegner’s Translation Theory and Chinese Bible Translation], Foreign Languages Research 外语研究 155, no. 1 (2016): 74–80 (in Chinese).