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This volume of essays, the first in a new ‘Christianity in Asia Series’, from the Trinity Theological College, Singapore, marks a fresh approach to articulate the
character of Christian social engagement in East Asiangyang today. Key institutional interpreters of Christianity in China and Singapore, together with colleagues in the West, reflect on a topic that is important and relevant not only to the church, but is also of considerable interest to the secular authorities and those of other faiths.
Singapore and China, in spite of their obvious dissimilarities, share a similar desire to make religion a positive factor in promoting the common good. Hardearned social stability, after all, can be undermined by ethnic and religious conflicts. Hence, the ongoing political and social engagement by Chinese and Singaporean Christians should be of immense interest to both academics and practitioners.
Contributors: Paul Barnett, Cao Shengjie, John Chew, Hwa Yung, Daniel Koh Kah Soon, Kenson Koh, Lim Siong Guan, Richard Magnus, Oliver O’Donovan,
Michael Nai-Chiu Poon, Robert Solomon, Tan Kim Huat, Bruce Winter, Ye Xiaowen and Zhuo Xinping. Bauds Bandar Zanhoan
About the editor: Michael Nai-Chiu Poon is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College.
