The Church in China

China has been a challenge to Christianity since the beginning of modern times and it remains so today. Here is a great civilisation comprising a quarter of humankind, yet largely untouched by Christian values and beliefs. Any theological evaluation of the state of world Christianity that does not take China into account is impoverished and radically incomplete. The contents of this issue have inevitably but not intentionally a Catholic bias since the editor is a historian of the Catholic Church