Carsten Vala

Church, Capitalism, and Democracy in Post-Ecological Societies

Theology

“Confronted by the dire warnings of ecological collapse in a generation or two, Kuo searches in vain for answers among contemporary ecotheologies, economic analyses, and political regimes. Innovatively weaving Christian Scripture together with findings from neuroscience and institutional analyses, he issues a challenge to Christians on the right and left to follow the Great Commission to save souls and the ecology. This will provoke debate—and soul-searching—among all those concerned with our earth and those who inhabit it.”

The Registered Church in China

“In engaging, easy-to-understand terms, Ten Harmsel draws together the latest scholarship on church-state relations in China with his own fresh perspectives to show readers what’s happening at the grassroots of Chinese Christianity today. . . . After reading this book, readers will come away with surprising new insights: that church leaders are satisfied in the work they do and that seeing Chinese brothers and sisters as only suffering in ‘persecuted churches’ tells only a partial story. It gives any reader a bird’s-eye view of important changes, a close-up understanding of new tensions in the Xi Jinping era, and a helpful understanding of how to walk beside and pray for brothers and sisters in the churches that are, as he writes, a ‘gift and blessing to all in China.’”