Duanran Feng publishes article in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Duanran Feng’s latest article in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History examines the Chinese theologian Wu Yaozong’s 1941 monograph No Man Has Seen God. The article retraces Wu’s leftward intellectual turn in the Republican period, which culminated in the book’s attempt to reconcile Christianity and communism. Originally a follower of American liberal Christianity, Wu embraced Stalinism after the mid-1930s. The article argues that Wu’s Stalinist turn led to a creative development of the tradition of American liberal Christianity, one that preserved and strengthened its Socialist character in the Chinese context, at a time when that character had become moribund in America. Today, Wu’s development of the American liberal tradition lives on in different Chinese Christian communities worldwide.
