Between Different Cultures

Bringing together eminent scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia in response to Chinese scholar Yang Huilin, this volume is a brilliant example of the lively and extremely meaningful dialogue between China and the West. It covers many dimensions of humanistic scholarship, including theology, philosophy, Christianity in China, hermeneutics, poetics, and comparative literature. This is an important book for our time and for the future of our world. Highly recommended!

~Zhang Longxi, Honorary President of the International Comparative Literature Association and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities

A fitting and imaginative tribute to Yang Huilin, a foremost Sino-Christian theologian, this volume represents an important profiling of his work. Huilin’s essays alongside the responses from an array of distinguished scholars develop a genre that is global, comparative, and cross-disciplinary. His formidable output deserves to be widely known and studied worldwide.

~David Fergusson, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Can a Communist Party member be a good theologian? Yes. This collection of Yang Huilin’s works, presented in dialogue with leading contemporary theologians, demonstrates how a professor of comparative literature in the PRC engages rigorously with Christian scriptures, theology, and contextual issues—producing meaningful discourse for both the academy and the church, and revealing that the divine manifests not only between cultures, but above and in all realms.

~Jason Lam, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne School of Theology/Australian University of Theology