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Title : |
The Catholic Church in Present-Day
China
– Through Darkness and Light |
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Author : |
Anthony S.K. Lam |
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Translator : |
Peter Barry, M.M. and Norman Walling, S.J. |
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Publisher : |
Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation,
Leuven, Belgium, and
Holy Spirit Study Centre,
Hong
Kong
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Language: |
English |
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Publication date : |
December 1997 |
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Edition : |
English edition |
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Number of pages : |
356 pages |
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Binding : |
Paperback |
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ISBN : |
962-85140-2-4 |
| Price : |
HK$75.00/US$10.00 (postage excluded) |
| Introduction : |
Lam packs a lot of information into this book: the status of the Church at the time
of Liberation; bishops appointed by
Rome
from 1949 to 1955; the conflict over bishops appointed and consecrated without
Vatican
permission from 1958; the nadir of the Culture Revolution; and a turn toward openness
beginning in 1978. Both the open and the underground church grew, organized and
trained personnel in the 1980s. Meanwhile the Party reformulated its theory of religion
and the government issued regulations. As appendices, this book contains 14 church
and government documents, 200 names in Romanization and Chinese, and a chronology
from 1980 through 1996. |
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