This article aims at contouring the China mission based on the Reports of World Mission Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, and suggesting some critical reflections on the China mission. Chapter I deals with China mission history, the anti-Christian...
This article aims at contouring the China mission based on the Reports of World Mission Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, and suggesting some critical reflections on the China mission. Chapter I deals with China mission history, the anti-Christianity movement during the nineteenth century, and its reasons. Chapter II outlines the current situations of the China mission and its tasks, the missionary message in relation to non-Christian religions, and the relationship between missions and government, based upon the Reports of Commission of World Mission Conference. Chapter III suggests the characteristics of the China mission, its limitations and missiological reflections on the China mission. The China mission shows us that the current missionaries reached at the new understanding of mission and church: church on the mission field should not be understood not as a by-product of mission work, but as itself the most efficient element in the Christian mission: the younger church may be regarded as passing out of the domain of "Missions" and its future course lies in the region of general church history. Its limitations are such as failure of the relationship between the missions and government in relation to the unequal treaties, failure of recognizing the signs of the times such as the Boxer rebellion, and individualistic approach toward salvation. The missiological reflections on the China mission suggest the relationship of church growth of China and the future of church of China, the mission of the cross in the context of China, and the relationship of the China mission and the judgement of God.