Haidian Christian Church ( Chinese : 北京基督教会海淀堂 ) is a church located in Zhongguancun , Haidian District , Beijing . It is operated by the Three-Self Patriotic Movement , a state-registered Protestant Church in Mainland China .
10-551: The church was founded in 1933. The pastor of the church, Wu Weiqing, graduated from Nanjing Union Theological Seminary in 1989 and has a DMin from Fuller Theological Seminary . He speaks English fluently. This design for the largest Christian church in China is characterized by a Chinese type of "triple p", meaning public-private partnership with commercial spaces on the ground floor, and by its striking facade rod system. Gerkan, Marg and Partners The current church building
20-489: A church building or other Christian place of worship in the People's Republic of China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nanjing Union Theological Seminary The Nanjing Union Theological Seminary ( simplified Chinese : 金陵协和神学院 ; traditional Chinese : 金陵協和神學院 ; pinyin : Jīnlíng xiéhé shénxuéyuàn ) is the flagship theological seminary of Protestant Christianity in China today. It
30-628: A total of twelve seminaries which formed the new seminary. During the massacre in Nanking during December 1937, the pre-consolidated Nanking Theological Seminary housed thousands of Chinese civilians in an effort to offer protection from the Japanese soldiers. However, Christian affiliated schools and seminaries suffered during the Japanese Invasion, and many were unofficially moved into unoccupied areas of Free China . In early 1952,
40-486: A twelfth institution joined the union, Yanjing Union Theological Seminary, Beijing (燕京协和神学院). In December 1952, K. H. Ting was elected by the board of directors as the new principal. The union brought together a wide theological spectrum of instructors and students. The seminary has long been the main center for training religious leaders, and was reopened as one of China's primary institutions for religious study in 1981. Protestantism regained popularity in China during
50-688: Is a Chinese-language journal of Protestantism in China. Originally established in 1914, it is currently published by the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary . The journal was originally founded in 1914 by the Presbyterian Chen Chin-yung ( Chinese : 陈金镛 ; pinyin : Chen Jinyong ; 1869–1938), a Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Nanking Theological Seminary , as the Theological Review . The journal's publication
60-534: Is managed by the China Christian Council . Prior to the founding of the People's Republic of China , the institution had its beginnings as Nanking Theological Seminary, established in 1911. In November 1952, ten other theological seminaries in East China would join it to form Nanjing Union Theological Seminary. In 1961, Yanjing Union Theological Seminary of Beijing would likewise join, making
70-513: The Three-Self Patriotic Movement worked to reform theological education. The PRC government saw Christianity as a potentially subversive power and seminaries lost funds from overseas denominations. Y. T. Wu was at the head of a committee to work towards the union of seminaries in East China. By November 1952, eleven theological seminaries from East China were incorporated as Nanjing Union Theological Seminary: In 1961,
80-603: The 1980s, and the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, which was the only graduate-level seminary at the time, began publishing the journals Nanjing Theological Review and Religion (or Zongjiao ), the latter in collaboration with the Nanjing University . Nanjing Theological Review Nanjing Theological Review ( simplified Chinese : 金陵神学志 ; traditional Chinese : 金陵神學志 ; pinyin : Jīnlíng shénxué zhì )
90-584: Was designed by Meinhard von Gerkan and Stephan Schütz [ de ] of Gerkan, Marg and Partners from 2005 to 2007 for €3.5 million. It has a gross floor area of 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft). Haidian Christian Church is located near Tsinghua University , Peking University and numerous IT headquarters such as Sina.com in China's technology hub. As such, a large percentage of attendants are young. 39°59′00″N 116°18′27″E / 39.983305°N 116.307484°E / 39.983305; 116.307484 This article about
100-842: Was interrupted and renamed several times, taking on the name the Nanking Union Theological Review in 1953 when it was published by the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary. It was renamed again in 1986 to its current name of Nanjing Theological Review . Since 1985, the Nanjing Theological Review and the English-language Chinese Theological Review have been supported by the Foundation for Theological Education in Southeast Asia. Many of
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