Should Christians Be Patriots? (Traditional Chinese)
by Wang Yi
In a context in which Christians have been forced to either come under the Chinese government's oversight or face persecution, Wang Yi ponders what it means to be a Christian patriot who loves their country and strives for its betterment versus a nationalist who idolizes their nation.
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Wang Yi is the founding pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church, a Calvinist house church in Chengdu. He is also a productive writer, editor, and social activist, and was a legal scholar at Chengdu University before he resigned to take up the pastorate. As of December 2019 he is serving a nine-year prison sentence for "inciting subversion of state.”
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Category: Academic
Date created: 2013
Key terms: church and state, nationalism, patriotism
