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63 J. Church & St. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/jchs63 and id is 1 raw text is: Religion and State in China: A Theological Appraisal Zhibin Xie Introduction In recent years, important issues have been raised by various Prot- estant groups in regard to the church-state relationship in China. Consider, for example, the Three-Self Church's accommodation with the government in principle alongside its disobedience to the state in the case of the demolition of church buildings and crosses in Zhejiang Province. Another example is the opposition to the re- cent movement toward the Sinification of Christianity, which is voiced in a document titled Reaffirming our Stance on the House Churches: 95 Theses (hereafter, 95 Theses) issued by the Chengdu Early Rain Reformed Church (Qiuyu Zhifu) in 2015. Fi- nally, consider Beijing Shouwang Church's reaction to governmen- tal restraints and its position regarding outdoor worship, as well ZHIBIN XIE (BA, Xiamen University, China; MA, Peking University, Beijing, China; PhD, The University of Hong Kong) is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, as well as a research fellow at the Insti- tute of Sino-Christian Studies in Hong Kong. He is the author, most recently, of Human Rights in China: A Social-Constructive Theological Approach, Political Theology 20, no. 5 (2019) and Why Public and Theological? The Problem of Pub- lic Theology in the Chinese Context, International Journal of Public Theology 11, no. 4 (2017). He has a chapter, The Structure of Religious Freedom in China: To- wards a Confucian-Christian Synthesis, in Religion and Nationalism in Asia, ed. Giorgio Shani and Takashi Kibe (London and New York: Routledge, 2019). His articles have appeared in Political Theology, International Journal of Public Theol- ogy, Asia Journal of Theology, Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, and Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology. Xie's primary scholarly interests include Christian ethics, public theology, and religion and politics in China. This article is a substantially revised version of my article presented in the international symposium on Religion-State Relationship in the Chinese Context: A Case Study in Christianity with Interdisciplinary Integration, organized by the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies in Hong Kong in July 2016. I am grateful for the support from the Institute to work on this article. I am also thankful for the two anony- mous reviewers' comments. Journal of Church and State vol. 63 no. 1, pages 1-22; doi:10.1093/jcs/csaa005 Advance Access Publication February 9, 2020 O The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com

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