A professor shared the Lutheran church's contributions to China's recent higher theological education.
At the 2022 annual meeting of the Journal of Research for Christianity in China held online on May 30, Professor Liu Ping gave a lecture titled "From the Yangtze River to the Pichai River: Martin Luther and China's Higher Theological Education－Elective Research of the Remains of Chinese Church Universities (Volume 2)".
Divided into two sessions, the meeting started with the first lecture attended by 11 scholars and professors from different schools given by Liu Ping, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Philosophy of Fudan University.
Professor Liu mentioned that it was a huge project to mainly grasp how many Christian universities there were in China. Despite many studies in this area, most of the Chinese church universities had not been researched, including when and where the first church university in China was built. He said if large-scale studies were conducted, new answers would be obtained to overturn the previous results, especially for the names of people, places, institutions, and churches.
Mainly focusing on Chinese universities of the Protestant churches, Liu gave the speech involving the higher theological education of the four Chinese mission universities influenced by Martin Luther.
He added, "The Lutheran Church not only built seminaries in China but also nurtured local senior clergy while preaching."
The four religious universities were Hankou Lutheran Theological Seminary in Hubei, Shekou Concordia Theological Seminary in Hubei, Kingchow Theological Seminary in Hubei, and Andong Lutheran Theological College in Liaoning. These four schools were distributed spanning a wide range, from the bank of the Yangtze River to the bank of the Pichai River, which showed that the Lutheran Theological seminaries had entered Mainland China.
The professor hoped that readers in the 21st century could recognize that Lutheran thought took root in China through the studies of the educational background, histories, and the current relics of the four Lutheran seminaries.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
5月30日，《中国基督教研究》2022年度会议在线上召开。会议邀请了11位来自不同学校学者、教授的参加，共分为上下两场。
上半场第一讲由复旦大学哲学院教授、博士生导师刘平教授主讲，他的分享的学术研究题目为《从扬子江畔到劈柴河边：马丁·路德与中国高等神学教育事业 ——中国教会大学遗存选考（第二卷）》。
刘平教授提到中国教会大学遗存选考是一个很庞大的项目，主要是研究中国到底有多少教会大学。虽然这方面的研究有很多，但是中国教会大学绝大多数都没有得到研究，比如中国的第一所教会大学到底在什么时间、什么地方建成的。如果重新做考证的话，总会得出新的答案，推翻以前的研究，尤其是对人名、地名、机构和母会的名称等，需要重新进行大规模的考证。
刘平老师主要考证的是新教的中国教会大学，此次演讲主要涉及到的是4所受马丁·路德所影响的中国教会大学的高等神学教育。
提到信义宗，刘平教授介绍道：“信义宗不单在中国开发了大学，而且也在传教的同时培养本土的高级师资人员。”
此次学术项目研究的4所教会大学分别是湖北汉口的信义神学院、湖北滠口的协同神学院、湖北荆州的荆州神学院和辽宁丹东的安东基督教信义神道院。这4所学校分布在中国跨度极大的区域内，从扬子江畔到劈柴河边，这个极大的跨度恰恰说明了信义宗神学院已经进入到广袤的中国本土。
刘平教授也盼望通过研究4所信义宗高等神学院的教育背景、办学历史脉络以及现今的旧址遗存情况，让21世纪读者可以认识到路德思想在中国本土的绽放。
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学术| 复旦大学刘平教授:马丁·路德与中国高等神学教育事业 ——中国教会大学遗存选考
A professor shared the Lutheran church's contributions to China's recent higher theological education.
At the 2022 annual meeting of the Journal of Research for Christianity in China held online on May 30, Professor Liu Ping gave a lecture titled "From the Yangtze River to the Pichai River: Martin Luther and China's Higher Theological Education－Elective Research of the Remains of Chinese Church Universities (Volume 2)".
Divided into two sessions, the meeting started with the first lecture attended by 11 scholars and professors from different schools given by Liu Ping, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Philosophy of Fudan University.
Professor Liu mentioned that it was a huge project to mainly grasp how many Christian universities there were in China. Despite many studies in this area, most of the Chinese church universities had not been researched, including when and where the first church university in China was built. He said if large-scale studies were conducted, new answers would be obtained to overturn the previous results, especially for the names of people, places, institutions, and churches.
Mainly focusing on Chinese universities of the Protestant churches, Liu gave the speech involving the higher theological education of the four Chinese mission universities influenced by Martin Luther.
He added, "The Lutheran Church not only built seminaries in China but also nurtured local senior clergy while preaching."
The four religious universities were Hankou Lutheran Theological Seminary in Hubei, Shekou Concordia Theological Seminary in Hubei, Kingchow Theological Seminary in Hubei, and Andong Lutheran Theological College in Liaoning. These four schools were distributed spanning a wide range, from the bank of the Yangtze River to the bank of the Pichai River, which showed that the Lutheran Theological seminaries had entered Mainland China.
The professor hoped that readers in the 21st century could recognize that Lutheran thought took root in China through the studies of the educational background, histories, and the current relics of the four Lutheran seminaries.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
Professor: Lecture on Lutherans' Legacy in China's Higher Theological Education
