Identity & Influence
The author went to this country
What is China?
This scholar accompanied the author on their influential trip to China in 2005.
Who is Dr. Thomas Leung?
The author distinguishes being born into a culture from being born into this.
What is an ideology?
The author observed that Christianity was often presented in China through the lens of this foreign culture.
What is Western culture?
This list of six Western thinkers influenced the author's worldview.(you only need to list 2)
Who are Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant?
In China, Christianity was sometimes seen as incompatible with this traditional Chinese philosophy.
What is Confucianism?
The realization that Western Christianity is not a universal default came to the author over this period of time.
What is a long time (or gradually)?
The author noted that missionaries may unintentionally do this to Christianity when spreading it abroad.
What is impose Western values?
The author began life within these two overlapping cultural and religious frameworks.
What are Western culture and Christianity?
The key question raised after the China trip asked whether one could hold both Christian and Confucian identities, using this term.
What is a “Confucian Christian”?