China and the True Jesus Church, with Melissa Inouye [MIPodcast #114]

Maxwell Institute Podcast

Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode we introduce you to a story about a man who was seeking for the true church of Christ. A man who prayed and then reported miraculous visitations. He recorded revelations about the true nature of God and how the true church should be built up, ultimately inspiring a large body of converts. If all of this sounds familiar, here’s the surprising part: This man started this particular movement in China in 1917.

Melissa Inouye joins us to talk about a restorationist Christian movement in China, which continues to exist today despite strict Chinese control of religion. We’re talking about her book, China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church.

About the Guest

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye is author of the new book, China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church, from Oxford University Press. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2011 and served as a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Auckland. She now works for the Church History Department with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The post China and the True Jesus Church, with Melissa Inouye [MIPodcast #114] appeared first on Neal A. Maxwell Institute | BYU.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's the Maxwell Institute podcast.
0:02.0	I'm Blair Hodges.
0:04.0	I'd like to introduce you to a story about a man who was seeking for the true church of Christ.
0:09.0	A man who prayed, and then he reported having miraculous visitations.
0:13.0	He recorded revelations about the true nature of God and how the true church should be built up,
0:18.0	ultimately inspiring a large body of converts. If all of this sounds familiar, here's the surprising part.
0:23.6	The man that I'm talking about started this particular movement in China in 1917.
0:28.6	Melissa Inouye joins us to talk about this Restorationist Christian movement in China,
0:32.6	which continues to exist today in spite of strict Chinese control of religion.
0:36.6	We're talking about Melissa Inouye's
0:38.0	book, China and the True Jesus, charisma and organization in a Chinese Christian church. This episode
0:43.7	was recorded last year, but we held on to it to wait until the paperback version of her book comes out,
0:48.5	and now the paperback version is out. You can send questions and comments about this episode
0:52.8	to me at my podcast at bYU.edu.
0:57.2	Melissa Waitsing in a way joins us today. We're talking about her book, China and the true
1:02.8	Jesus, charisma and organization in a Chinese Christian church. All right, Chinese history. Melissa,
1:09.2	this book is the first book that I think I've read that really delves into Chinese history.
1:13.6	In fact, while you're focusing on these Christian movements that cropped up in China, the book also serves as kind of a nice introduction, I think, to the history of China.
1:22.2	Was that a deliberate choice?
1:23.7	That was a deliberate choice. So I have this kind of irrepressible urge to multitask, and I just
1:28.5	couldn't stop myself from doing it. So it's supposed to be kind of using the true Jesus church as a way to
1:34.2	kind of work through Chinese history, because I remember from my first Chinese history class, just getting
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Maxwell Institute Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Maxwell Institute Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.