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| If you really Nee to know Who was Watchman Nee? Discussions regarding the life and times of Watchman Nee, the Little Flock and the beginnings of the Local Church Movement in Mainland China |
Topic Review (Newest First)
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| 01-10-2016 04:27 PM | ||
| Freedom |
Re: Simon Chan: Grassroots Asian Theology Quote:
Perhaps that is why no one saw it coming. When WL became the de facto pope, no one could believe it. LC members still can't believe it, they can't even entertain that possibility. |
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| 01-09-2016 09:36 PM | ||
| OBW |
Re: Simon Chan: Grassroots Asian Theology Interesting. I am less prone to the labeling relative to the RCC at this point, but it does point more clearly to some of the parallels that others (maybe even you in the past) have pointed to. |
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| 01-09-2016 06:31 PM | ||
| Ohio |
Re: Simon Chan: Grassroots Asian Theology Quote:
It is no surprise then that Nee and Darby were both considered "popes" to outsiders. |
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| 01-09-2016 10:18 AM | ||
| UntoHim |
Simon Chan: Grassroots Asian Theology Someone recently drew my attention to a newly-published book which has a section addressing Watchman Nee's teachings. The book is Simon Chan, Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up, IVP Academic, (2014) Dr. Simon Chan (PhD, Cambridge) is Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Theological College in Singapore The relevant section is pp. 180-188 (most of which can be read online via Google Books) One major point is the close resemblance Prof Simon Chan finds between Watchman Nee's teachings & those of the Roman Catholic & Orthodox Churches. Here are the most relevant quotes: Watchman “Nee is often accused of sectarianism, but theologically, Nee’s ecclesiology is no more exclusive than the Roman Catholic Church’s claim that the true church ‘subsists’ in the Catholic Church. What Nee has done is transfer the Roman exclusiveness to the ‘local church.’ But unlike the Catholic understanding, the charge of sectarianism will not go away as long as Nee questions the legitimacy of nonlocal churches.” [Simon Chan, Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up, IVP Academic, (2014) p. 186] Watchman “Nee’s theological vision of the church is far more traditional and ‘catholic’ than perhaps he himself realized. His concepts of the corporate Christ and the distinction between the body and bride bear close resemblance to the Catholic idea of totus Christus seen in Pope Pius XII’s encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi and in other Catholic writers. His understanding of authority as a reciprocal relationship between the elders and people is not very different from that of Orthodoxy. Even the laying on of hands is surprisingly close to the traditional understanding of the sacrament of confirmation.” [Simon Chan, Grassroots Asian Theology, IVP Academic, (2014) p. 187] “[H]is ecclesiology... is surprisingly traditional, perhaps closer to Catholicism and Orthodoxy than to Protestantism...” [Simon Chan, Grassroots Asian Theology, IVP Academic, (2014) p. 202] - |
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