Nanjing Union Theological Seminary
The Jinling Union Theological Seminary is a theological seminary that belongs to China's post-denominational Protestant church, China Christian Council. It has its beginnings in a bible school established in 1911.[1]
Seminary during the Japanese Occupation
During the massacre in Nanjing during December of 1937, the Seminary housed thousands of Chinese civilians in an effort to offer protection from the Japanese soldiers.[2] However, Christian affiliated schools and seminaries suffered during the Japanese Invasion, and many were unofficially moved into unoccupied areas of Free China.[3]
Postwar
In 1952, twelve theological seminaries from East China previously of various Christian denominations were incorporated as Jinling Union Theological Seminary at Nanjing, under the influence of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. The seminary was guided by Y.T. Wu at that time and its president has long been Bishop K.H. Ting. [4] 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.[5]
Protestantism regained popularity in China during the 1980s, and the Jinling Theological Seminary, which was the only graduate-level seminary at the time, began publishing a new Theological Review; the Jinling shenxuezhi, or Jinling Theological Review, as well as the publication entitled Zongjiao, or Religion.[6]
Historical Figures Associated with the Seminary
Y.T. Wu
K.H. Ting- long-time president of the Seminary and Chinese Christian leader
John Leighton Stuart- Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis and an American Missionary who remained in China during Japanese occupation
Hubert Lafayette Sone- Professor of Old Tstament and American missionary during the occupation
Francis Wilson Price- American professor at the Seminary who remained at the Seminary throughout Japanese occupation
See also
References
- ↑ Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (Baidu Encyclopedia) (in Chinese)
- ↑ Woods, John E. (1998). The Good man of Nanking: the Diaries of John Rabe. p. 274.
- ↑ Book, Timothy. “Christianity Under the Japanese Occupation” in Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, ed. Daniel H. Bays. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1996.
- ↑ Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (Hudong Encyclopedia) (in Chinese)
- ↑ Goldman, Merle. “Religion in Post-Mao China.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol 483 (1986), 146-156.
- ↑ Bays, Daniel H. “Chinese Protestant Christianity Today” The China Quarterly, no 174 (2003): 488-504
External links
- Official site (in Chinese)
- Frank Williston Papers 1924-1966 Collection includes correspondence concerning the Nanking Theological Seminary during the Nanking Massacre, December, 1937.