{"product_id":"9780718894054","title":"Builders of the Chinese Church: Pioneer Protestant Missionaries and Chinese Church Leaders","description":"\"From 1807, when the first Protestant missionary arrived in China, to the 1920s, when a new phase of growth began, thousands of missionaries and Chinese Christians labored, often under very adverse conditions, to lay the groundwork for a solid, healthy, and self-sustaining Chinese church. Following an Introduction that sets the scene and surveys the entire period, 'Builders of the Chinese Church' contains the stories of nine leading pioneers: seven Western missionaries and two Chinese.\u003cbr\u003eHere we meet Robert Morrison, the heroic translator; Liang Fa, the first Chinese evangelist; missionary-scholar James Legge; J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission; converted opium addict Pastor Hsi, Overcomer of Demons; Griffith John and Jonathan Goforth, both indefatigable preachers; and the idealistic advocates of education and reform, W.A.P. Martin and Timothy Richard. Readers will be inspired by their courage, devotion, and sheer perseverance in arduous work, and will gain a better understanding of the origins of the two ‘branches’ of today’s Chinese Protestantism.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lutterworth Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014548177136,"sku":"9780718894054","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780718894054_p0.jpg?v=1763622633","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780718894054","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}