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Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China - Thompson, Glen L, and Lieu, Samuel N C (Foreword by)
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"A balanced, accessible, and thorough history of Jingjiao, the first Christian church in China. Many people assume that the first introduction of Christianity to the Chinese was part of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. In fact, Syriac-speaking Christians brought the gospel along the Silk Road into China in the seventh century. Glen L. Thompson introduces readers to the fascinating history of this early Eastern church, referred to as Jingjiao, or the "Luminous Teaching." Thompson presents the history of the Persian ...

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Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China 2024, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

ISBN-13: 9780802883520

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