PUBLICATIONS

Selected Journal Articles / Book Chapters in English

  1. “Chinese Religions and the History of Salvation: A Theological Perspective.” Ching Feng 40.1 (March 1997), 15-40.  

    German translation: “Religionen Chinas und christliche Heilsgeschichte,” Christentum im Reich der Mitte (Hamburg, Germany: EMW) 3 (1998), 149-167.
  2. “Cobb’s Theory of Inter-religious Dialogue and the Buddhist-Christian Encounter in China.” Ching Feng 40.3-4 (Sept.-Dec. 1997), 261-290.
  3. “Christian Ecological Theology in Dialogue with Confucianism.” Ching Feng 41.3-4 (Sept-Dec. 1998), 309-344.  

    Reprinted as “Ecological Theology in Dialogue with Confucianism.” Dialogue and Alliance 17.1 (2003), 61-90.  

    German translation: “Christliche Öko-Theologie im Dialog mit Konfuzianismus,” Christsein in China (Hamburg, Germany: EMW) 6 (2000), 54-81; reprinted in: Ökologische Perspektiven in China, edited by Katrin Fiedler & Freddy Dutz (Hamburg, Germany: EMW, 2011), 41-61.
  4. “Paul Tillich and Ecological Theology.” The Journal of Religion 79.2 (April 1999), 233-249.
  5. “Hong Kong Christians’ Attitudes towards Chinese Religions.” Studies in World Christianity 5.1 (Spring 1999), 18-31.
  6. “Influence of Chinese Buddhism on the Indigenization of Christianity in Modern China.” Ching Feng (New Series) 1.2 (2000), 143-160.
  7. “Development of Chinese Culture and Chinese Christian Theology.” Studies in World Christianity 7.2 (2001), 219-240.  

    Reprinted in: Yang Huilin and Daniel H. N. Yeung (eds.), Sino-Christian Studies in China (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Press, 2006), 280-303.
  8. “Christian Theology in a Religiously Pluralistic Context: An Asian Revisit of Schleiermacher.” Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology 4 (Spring 2001), 9-28.
  9. “Barth’s Theology of Religion and the Asian Context of Religious Pluralism.” Asia Journal of Theology 15.2 (Oct. 2001), 247-267.
  10. “Buddhist-Christian Complementarity in the Perspective of Quantum Physics.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 12.2 (2002), 148-164. 
  11. “Religious Studies in Christian University in Contemporary Asia.” Christian Higher Education 2.1 (2003), 47-67.
  12. “Inheriting the Chinese and Christian Traditions in Global Context: A Confucian-Protestant Perspective.” Religion & Theology 10/1 (March 2003), 1-23.
  13. “Newman’s Ideas and Chung Chi’s Practices.” Co-authored with Peter T. M. Ng. Christian Higher Education 2.3 (2003), 229-250.
  14. “Zhang Chun-yi’s Buddhist-Christian Pneumatology.” Co-authored with So Yuen-tai. Ching Feng (New Series) 4.1 (2003), 51-77.
  15. “Christianity and the Modern Chinese Buddhist Reform.” Co-authored with He Jian-ming. Dialogue & Alliance 17.2 (Fall/Winter 2003/4), 41-69.
  16. “Process Christology and Christian-Confucian Dialogue in China.” Process Studies 33.1 (2004), 149-165.
  17. “A Mahayana Reading of Chalcedon Christology: A Chinese Response to John Keenan.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 24 (2004), 209-228.

    Responses received:
    Thomas Cattoi, “What has Chalcedon to do with Lhasa? John Keenan’s and Lai Pan-chiu’s Reflections on Classical Christology and the Possible Shape of a Tibetan Theology of Incarnation.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 28 (2008), 13-25.

    John Keenan, “The Prospects for a Mahāyāna Theology of Emptiness: A Continuing Debate.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 30 (2010), 3-27.
  18. “Christian-Confucian Dialogue on Humanity: An Ecological Perspective.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 14.2 (2004), 202-215.
  19. “Doctrine of the Trinity, Christology and Hua-yen Buddhism.” Ching Feng (New Series) 5.2 (2004), 203-225.  

    Abridged German translation: “Trinitarische Perichorese und Hua-yen Buddhismus,” Entzogenheit in Gott: Beiträge zur Rede von der Verborgenheit der Trinität, herausgegeben von Markus Mühling und Martin Wendte (Utrecht: Ars Disputandi, 2005), 45-61.
  20. “Diasporic Chinese Communities and Protestantism in Hong Kong during the 1950s.” Co-authored with Ying Fuk-tsang. Studies in World Christianity 10.1 (2004), 136-153.
  21. “Migration, Theology and Religious Identity: Christianity and Chinese Culture in the Life and Thought of Xu Songshi.” Co-authored with So Yuen-tai. Asia Journal of Theology 18.2 (2004.10), 320-339.
  22. “Typology and Prospect of Sino-Christian Theology.” Ching Feng (New Series) 6.2 (2005), 211-230.
  23. “Sino-Theology, Bible and the Christian Tradition.” Studies in World Christianity 12.3 (2006), 266-281.  

    Reprinted in: Lai Pan-chiu & Jason Lam (eds.), Sino-Christian Theology: A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in China (Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2010), 161-177.

    A slightly different French version (based on an earlier draft written in Chinese): “Sino-théologie, Bible et tradition chrétienne.” Transversalités: Revue de l’Institut Catholique de Paris 103 (Juillet-Septembre 2007), 129-151.
  24. “Barth’s Doctrines of Sin and Humanity in Buddhist Perspective.” Studies in Interreligious Studies 16.1 (2006), 41-58.
  25. “The Kingdom of God and the Pure Land: A Dialogical Study of Eschatology and Praxis.” Ching Feng (New Series) 7.1-2 (2006), 183-210.  

    Reprinted with minor revisions as “Kingdom of God in Tillich and Pure Land in Mahayana Buddhism,” in: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Tillich-Forschung Band 5/2009, edited by Christian Danz, Werner Schlüssler und Erdmann Sturm (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2010), 151-172.
  26. “Theological Translation & Transmission between China and the West.” Asia Journal of Theology 20.2 (October 2006), 285-304.

    Reprinted in: Lai Pan-chiu & Jason Lam (eds.), Sino-Christian Theology: A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in China (Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2010), 83-99.
  27. “Religious Conviction and Tolerance: Fragmentary Reflections on the History of Christianity.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 17.2 (2007), 153-170.
  28. “Mahayana Interpretation of Christianity: A Case Study of Zhang Chunyi (1971-1955).” Co-authored with So Yuen-tai. Buddhist-Christian Studies 27 (2007), 67-87.
  29. “Chinese Religions: Negotiating Cultural and Religious Identities.” In: Christian Approaches to Other Faiths, edited by Alan Race and Paul M. Hedges (London: SCM Press, 2008), 270-288.
  30. “Christian Transformation of Greek Humanism and Its Implications for Christian-Confucian Dialogue.” Korean Journal of Systematic Theology 22 (2008.12), 245-269.
  31. “Chinese Christian Intellectual in Diaspora: A Case Study of Xie Fuya.” Co-authored with Ho Hing-cheong. Monumenta Serica 56 (2008), 427-458.
  32. “Buddhist-Christian Studies in Scientific Age: A Case Study of Burnett Hillman Streeter (1874-1937).” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue19.1 (2009), 34-49.
  33. “Timothy Richard’s Buddhist-Christian Studies.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 29 (2009), 23-38.
  34. “Cultural Studies and Theology in Tillichian Perspective: With Special Reference to Sino-Theology.” Sino-Christian Studies 9 (2010): 55-87.
  35. “Reflections on the History of Buddhist-Christian Encounter in Modern China.” In: Christianity and Chinese Culture, edited by Miikka Ruokanen and Paulos Huang (Grand Rapids / Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2010), pp.145-159; with responses by Jorgen Skov Sorensen on pp. 160-165, and by Jyri Komulainen on pp.166-169.
  36. “Buddhist-Christian Encounter in the Age of Science: A Case Study of Modern Chinese Buddhism.” Co-authored with Wang Tao. Ching Feng, n.s. 10, No.1-2 (2010-2011), 45-66.
  37. “Sino-Theology as a Non-Church Movement: Historical and Comparative Perspectives.” Christian Presence and Progress in North-East Asia: Historical and Comparative Studies, edited by Jan A. B. Jongeneel, Jiafeng Liu, Peter Tze Ming Ng, Paek Chong Ku, Scott W. Sunquist and Yuko Watanabe (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011), 87-103.
  38. “Inter-religious Dialogue and Social Justice: Cobb’s Wesleyan Process Theology in East Asian Perspective.” Asia Journal of Theology 25.1 (April 2011), 82-102.
  39. “Inter-religious dialogue on Environmental Ethics.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 21.1 (2011), pp.5-19.
  40. “Christian Mission among the Chinese Buddhists: A Centennial Reflection.” In: Witnessing to Christ in a Pluralistic Age: Christian Mission among Other Faiths, edited by Edited by Lalsingkima Pachuau and Knud Jørgensen (Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2011), pp.189-196.
  41. “Interreligious Dialogue, Harmonious Society, and the Kingdom of God.” Asian Christian Review 5.2 (Winter 2011), pp.69-84.
  42. “Paul Tillich (1886-1965) – The New Being in Christ”. Creation & Salvation, Vol. 2: A Companion on Recent Theological Movements, edited by Ernst Conradie (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012), pp.87-92.
  43. “Creation and Salvation in Chinese Perspective”. Creation & Salvation, Vol. 2: A Companion on Recent Theological Movements, edited by Ernst Conradie (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012), pp.344-349.
  44. “Inter-religious Dialogue on Ecology: A View from China.” Religions 7 (22 October 2012), pp.83-97.
  45. “God of Life and Ecological Theology: A Chinese Christian Perspective.” The Ecumenical Review 65.1 (March 2013), pp. 67-82.
  46. “Christian Discourses on Religious Diversity in Contemporary China.” In: Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought, edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel & Joachim Gentz (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp.215-230.
  47. “Human Rights and Christian-Confucian Dialogue.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 23.2 (2013): 133-149.
  48. “Reconsidering the Christian Understanding of Universal Salvation in Mahayana Buddhist Perspective.” Ching Feng, n.s. 12 (2013), pp.19-42.
  49. “Buddhist-Christian Encounter in Modern China and the Globalization of Culture.” In: Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China: Transnational Religions, Local Agents, and the Study of Religion, 1800-Present, edited by Thomas Jansen, Thoralf Klein and Christian Meyer (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2014), pp.272-294.
  50. “Shaping Humanity with Word and Spirit: Perspectives East, West and Neither-East-Nor-West.” In: Word and Spirit: Renewing Christology and Pneumatology in a Globalizing World, edited by Anselm K. Min and Christoph Schwöbel (Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter, March 2014), pp.131-149.
  51. “Die letztgültige Realität im Chinesischen Buddhismus und die christliche Gotteslehre.” In: Gott und Götter in der Welt der Religionen (Grundwissen Christentum, Bd. 5), edited by Markus Mühling (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.09), 219-249.
  52. “Teaching Global Theology with Local Resources: A Chinese Theologian’s Strategies.” In: Teaching Global Theologies: Power and Praxis, edited by Kwok Pui-lan, Cecilia Ganzaléz-Andrieu, and Dwight N. Hopkins (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2015.9), pp.91-104.
  53. “Karl Barth and the Buddhist-Christian Studies in China.” Journal of Comparative Scripture 6 (2015), pp. 69-112.
  54. “Religion-Science Dialogue and the Secondary Education in Hong Kong: An Inter-Religious Perspective.” Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (2016), pp. pp.15-27. 
  55. “Religious Diversity and Public Space in China: A Reconsideration of the Christian Doctrine of Salvation.” Interactive Pluralism in Asia: Religious Life and Public Space, edited by Simone Sinn and Tong Wing Sze (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2016), pp.43-58. 
  56. “Confucian Understanding of Humanity and Rationality in Conversation: A Chinese Christian Perspective.” Rationalität im Gespräch – Rationality in Conversation: Philosophische und theologische Perspektiven – Philosophical and Theological Perspectives, hg. v. Markus Mühling, mit Christina Drobe, Dirk-Martin Grube, Alexander Kupsch, Paul Peterson und Martin Wendte (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2016.11), pp.321-335.
  57. “Buddhist-Christian Relations in China: A Christian Perspective.” Buddhist-Christian Relations in Asia, edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel (St. Ottilien, Germany: EOS Verlag, 2017.05), pp.363-386.
  58. “Tillich’s Concept of Ultimate Concern and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue.” In: Paul Tillich and Asian Religions, edited by Ka-fu Keith Chan and Yau-nang Willima Ng (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017.08), pp.47-67.
  59. “Chinese Catholic Response to Sino-Japanese War: A Study of Xu Zongze’s Public Theology of War and Peace.” Co-authored with Li Lili. Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2017, edited by Paulos Huang (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp.166-189 .
  60. “Ecological theology as Public Theology: A Chinese Perspective.” International Journal of Public Theology 11.4 (2017), pp.477-500.
  61. “Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Peace-Building: A Sino-Christian Perspective.” In: The Role of Religion in Peacebuilding: Crossing the Boundaries of Prejudice and Distrust, edited byPauline Kollontai, Sue Yore and Sebastian Kim (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2018.1), pp.35-51.
  62. “Chinese Explorations of Orthodox Theology: A Critical Review.” International Journal of Sino-Western Studies 14 (June 2018), pp.27-41.  A revised and expanded version published in International Journal for the Study of Christian Church 18.4 (Dec. 2018), pp. 315-331.
  63. “Divine Love and Human Love: An Asian Ecumenical Revisit of Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation (1518).” Hong Kong Journal of Catholic Studies 9 (December 2018), pp.30-59. 
  64. “Inter-religious Dialogue in a World of Conflict and Violence: A Critical Exploration of Confucianism.” Interreligious Relations: Occasional Papers of the Studies in Inter-Religious Relations in Plural Societies Programme (Singapore: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University) 4 (May 2019), pp.1-12.
  65. “Justification by Faith and Protestant Christianity in China: With Special Reference to the Finnish Interpretation of Luther.” International Journal of Sino-Western Studies 16 (June 2019), pp.21-33.
  66. “Reconsidering Theological Exchange between China and the West.” International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 19.2-3 (2019.09), 103-119.
  67. “Karl Barth and Universal Salvation: A Mahayana Buddhist Perspective.” In: Karl Barth and Comparative Theology, edited by Christian T. Collins Winn and Martha Moore-Keish (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019), pp.85-104.
  68. “In Dialogue with Moltmann on Ethics of Hope.” Ching Feng (New Series) 18.1-2 (2019), 55–78.
  69. “The Christian Story of God’s Work – A Chinese Christian Response.” T & T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change, edited by Ernst Conradie and Hilda Koster (London: T & T Clark International, 2020), pp. 480-489.
  70. “Subordination, Separation, and Autonomy: Chinese Protestant Approaches to Religion-State Relation.” Journal of Law and Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 35.1 (April 2020), 149-164.

    Portuguese translation: “Subordinação, separação e autonomia: abordagens protestantes chinesas para a relação entre Religião e Estado”. Locus: Revista de História (Juiz de Fora, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora) 27.1 (2021), 84–105.
  71. “Christianity and Patriotism: An Inter-disciplinary and Contextual Reflection.” Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice: A Chinese Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Global Perspective, edited by Zhibin Xie, Pauline Kollontai, and Sebastian Kim (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2020), pp.101-116.
  72. “Political Forgiveness: A Contextual and Multidisciplinary Dialogue with Reinhold Niebuhr.” Theology Today 77.3 (October 2020), 243–254.
  73. “The Ecological Heritage of Protestantism from a Chinese Christian Perspective.” Ching Feng (New Series) 19.1-2 (2020), 21–47.
  74. “Sino-Christian Theology and Bible in China”. Oxford Handbook of Bible in China, edited by K. K. Yeo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, April 2021), 511–526.
  75. “Religious Diversity, Democracy, and Public Theology: Conversing with Barth in Hong Kong Context.” Theo-Politics? Conversing with Barth in Western and Asian Contexts, edited by Markus Höfner (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Fortress Academic, 2021), 359–377.
  76. “World Christianity in a Chinese Christian Perspective.” World Christianity: History, Methodologies, Horizons, edited by Jehu J. Hanciles (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 11.2021), 158–170.
  77. “Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in the Interactions between Christianity and Confucianism: With Special Reference to the Problem of Immanence vis-à-vis Transcendence.” International Journal of Sino-Western Studies 21 (2021.12), 1–21.
  78. “Taking a Deep Breath for the Story (of the Earth) to Begin in the Public Sphere: A Chinese Christian Perspective.” Taking a Deep Breath for the Story to Begin, edited by Ernst Conradie and Pan-Chiu Lai (Cape Town: AOSIS Scholarly Books, 2021), 163–182.
  79. “Reconsidering Confucian Understanding of Human Person and its Implications for Whole-Person Education.” Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities: Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond, edited by Benedict S. B. Chan and Victor C. M. Chan (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2022), 13–30.
  80. “Christian Mission and Buddhists.” Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies, edited by Kirsteen Kim and Alison Fitchett Climenhaga (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 600–614.
  81. “What Christianity might have learned about “salvation” from the dialogue with Chinese religions.” Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture 46 (2022), 11–30.
  82. Co-authored with Gu, Rouyan. “Self-love and Altruistic Love in Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Christian Theological Reflection.” A Companion to Comparative Theology, edited by Pim Valkenburg et al (Leiden: Brill, August 2022), pp.388–406.
  83. “Christian Mission and Buddhists.” Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies, edited by Kirsteen Kim and Alison Fitchett Climenhaga (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp.600-614.
  84. “Being and Non-being: Paul Tillich, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, and Sino-Christian Theology.” Paul Tillich and Sino-Christian Theology, edited by Keith Ka-fu Chan (London and New York: Routledge, June 2023), pp.8-29.
  85. “Salvation and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue.” Beyond Boundaries Essays on Theology, Dialogue and Religion, edited by Melaine Barbato, Mathias Schneider, and Fabian Völker (Münster, Germany: Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2024), pp.239-249.
  86. Co-authored with Chong, Chun-ming. “Technology and Humanity in Chinese Christian Perspective: With Special References to Anthropocene and Transhumanism.” Brill Journal of Chinese Theology 10.2 (December 2024), forthcoming.
  87. “Sino-Christian Theology.” The Oxford Handbook of Asian Christian Theologies, edited by Peter C. Phan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025
  88. “Artificial Intelligence and Human Person: A Chinese Christian Perspective.” Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond, edited by Levi Checketts and Benedict S. B. Chan (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, forthcoming 2025).
  89. “Multi-dimensional Personhood in Sino-Christian Perspective.” Sino-Christian Studies 40 (forthcoming December 2025).

 


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Selected Journal Articles in Chinese with English Abstract (since 2010)