In this important book, Nathan Faries ranges widely through history, literature and contemporary politics, and performs a really valuable service in drawing our attention to many important literary works hitherto unknown to non-Chinese speakers. I hope this excellent book finds the broad audience it deserves.

Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom

The "Inscrutably Chinese" Church opens a window of opportunity for us to view Protestant churches in contemporary China through a different lens....This book will help all of us see more clearly the true face of the Chinese church, close some gaps caused by cultural miscommunication, draw together the perception of those inside and those outside China, and bring the 'inscrutably Chinese' church into clearer view.

International Bulletin of Mission Research

Nathan Faries' The "Inscrutably Chinese" Church: How Narratives and Nationalism Continue to Divide Christianity, provides a valuable guide to some of the current realities in the church life of China....His book is rich in illuminating detail, and it offers important correctives to typical characterizations by Western Christians with lesser experience and capability in spoken and written Chinese.

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