Incarnation – The Word of God and the Further Contextualization of Christianity in China
According to Belgian sinologist Nicholas Standaert, in the spread of religion, there are two possible phenomena that may occur once the proclaimed religion comes into contact with the local culture: one is that “the incoming new religion may gradually alter the system, modes of thinking or expressions of the original culture, resulting in a deep cultural alienation or ceding; the other is that “the incoming foreign religion, undergoes some changes, taking on a new look in the culture that accept