The Search for God in Chinese Culture and Contemporary China1/LA RECHERCHE DE DIEU DANS LA CULTURE CHINOISE ET LA CHINE CONTEMPORAINE
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Abstract
Abstract: current era is both exciting and confusing. A lot of changes are going on in China. There are both crises and opportunities. In this essay, I want to introduce many exciting recent developments of contemporary Christianity in China. All the developments show that the Chinese church is already taking deeper and deeper roots in China, and there are a lot of opportunities for the church to participate in culture and society. Many Chinese, both common people and intellectuals, have a renewed appreciation of the strength and relevance of the Christian faith, and many others are crying out for something that can satisfy their spiritual longing. Yes, indeed many people are searching for God, or perhaps it is God Himself who has been actively searching for the Chinese since very early times. Key words: Christianity, Chinese culture, contemporary China Resume: L'epoque actuelle est a la fois passionnant et deroutant. De nombreuses changements sont en cours en Chine. Il existe en meme temps des crises et des opportunites. Dans cet essai, je tiens a presenter le recent developpement excitant du Christianisme contemporain en Chine. Tous les developpements montrent que l'eglise chinoise s'est deja enracinee de plus en plus profondement en Chine, et il y a beaucoup de opportunites pour l'eglise de participer a la culture et la societe. Beaucoup de chinois, le populaire et les intellectuels, ont une appreciation renovatrice de la force et la pertinence de la foi Chretienne, et beaucoup d'autres ont cruellement besoin de quelque chose qui peut satisfaire leur desirs spirituels. Oui, en effet, de nombreuses personnes sont a la recherche de Dieu, ou peut-etre c'est Dieu lui-meme qui cherchait activement pour les Chinois depuis tres longtemps. Mots-Cles: Christianisme, Culture chinoise, la Chine contemporaine (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone-an image made by man's design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead. Acts 17:22-31 (NIV) THE CHINESE FEVER AND THE CHRISTIANITY FEVER In 1972, an American Forrest Gump received the invitation of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai to represent USA to play ping-pong in China. After he returned to USA, he said to the reporters, They are all very poor, and they don't go to the church. Although it was a fictitious story, what was said above was in fact quite true. Around thirty years later (2003), the resident reporter of Time in Beijing (Peking), David Aikman, published a book, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power, which has shocked both the government and the common people. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".