Catholic Church in China: Under the Dual Tension between Sinicization and Catholicity Published

2023年2月，中国社会科学院世界宗教研究所基督教研究室副主任刘国鹏所著的新书《中国化与大公性双重张力下的中国天主教会》由社会科学文献出版社出版。

本书以中国化与大公性双重张力下的当代（1978-2012年）中国天主教会为论域，点面相结合，侧重考察与反思中国天主教在中国化和大公性双重维度和视域下的自身建构与路径探索，及其所取得的成就和面临的挑战。

刘国鹏，中国社会科学院世界宗教研究所基督教研究室副主任，中国社会科学院基督教研究中心副主任，副研究员。著有《刚恒毅与中国天主教的本地化》等著作。

Catholic Church in China: Under the Dual Tension between Sinicization and Catholicity, a new book by Liu Guopeng, deputy director of the Christian Studies Department of the Institute of World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), was published by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China) in February 2023.

The research in the book focuses on the contemporary Chinese Catholic Church (1978-2012) under the twofold tension between sinicization and Catholicity at the microscale and macroscale. It mainly examines and reflects on, under the dimensions and perspectives of both sinicization and Catholicity, the construction of the Chinese Catholic Church and the explorations it made, as well as its achievements and challenges.

Liu Guopeng is the deputy director of the Christian Studies Department of the Institute of World Religions as well as the deputy director and associate research fellow of the Center for the Study of Christianity at CASS. His other works include Celso Costantini and the Indigenization of the Catholic Church in China.

- Translated by Joyce Leung