Religion And State: The Life Monthly Under The Perspective Of Nationalism

The Life Monthly (1920-1926) was published by Peiking Apologetic Group, which was renamed as Life Fellowship in1924。 Majority of the members were professors at Yanching University and they define themselves a group without Border, Non-denominational, and Non-Party. The Life Monthly made a complex response for nationalist movement in the1920s. While refuteing the Anti-Christian Movement in1922, it also called for self-examination in the Christian. In the year of1924, the Movement to Restore Educational Rights burst out. Although disagreements came out among the authors of The Life Monthly in the very beginning that whether the missionary schools should be registered in the government, they accepted the result in the final. Similiarly, in the.Anti-Christian Movement of1924, the publishion’s attitude ranged from the self-protection to srong objection and to introspection finally. After The May30Movement in1925, The Life Monthly showed the awakening of Christian in China and the admonitions to the Church, presented the process that Chinese Christians became firm in abolishing the unequal treaties, and estabalished its own nationalist ideas in the interaction with the nationalist, namely"Rational" treatment to "nationalism", shape the Christian concept of the national, establish the indigenous Christian Church and the indigenous Christian Church service concept of the state and society. The nationalist ideas, the profound impact of the nationalist movement, were expressions of the patriotic feelings of the Chinese Christian intellectuals, harmony and unification of Chinese as Christians and civiliants, and adaption and seclection for Chinese between faith and state.