The Author: Aiming Wang (1963) is Dean and Vice President of the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary in China and Vice Director of the Committee of Theological Education of the China Christian Council. He was Assistant Professor for Western Literature at the Nanjing Normal University. In 2008, he received his doctoral degree in Systematic Theology/Ethics at the University of Basel, Switzerland and his doctor honoris causa from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

«This significant work of scholarship will be of interest to all who are concerned for church development in China and the possible contribution of European theology to that process.» (Philip L. Wickeri, International Bulletin of Missionary Research)

• Contents: The meaning of the Reformation for the future of the Church in China – Theory of Max Weber’s Ideal Types as methodological basis for an ecclesial ethics in China – The Ideal Type I is about the theological principles of Martin Luther, the Ideal Type II about the institutional church of John Calvin, the Ideal Type III about the teachings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth, and the Ideal Type IV is about the ethical model of Confucianism.

The Author: Aiming Wang (1963) is Dean and Vice President of the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary in China and Vice Director of the Committee of Theological Education of the China Christian Council. He was Assistant Professor for Western Literature at the Nanjing Normal University. In 2008, he received his doctoral degree in Systematic Theology/Ethics at the University of Basel, Switzerland and his doctor honoris causa from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

«This significant work of scholarship will be of interest to all who are concerned for church development in China and the possible contribution of European theology to that process.» (Philip L. Wickeri, International Bulletin of Missionary Research)

• Contents: The meaning of the Reformation for the future of the Church in China – Theory of Max Weber’s Ideal Types as methodological basis for an ecclesial ethics in China – The Ideal Type I is about the theological principles of Martin Luther, the Ideal Type II about the institutional church of John Calvin, the Ideal Type III about the teachings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth, and the Ideal Type IV is about the ethical model of Confucianism.

The Author: Aiming Wang (1963) is Dean and Vice President of the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary in China and Vice Director of the Committee of Theological Education of the China Christian Council. He was Assistant Professor for Western Literature at the Nanjing Normal University. In 2008, he received his doctoral degree in Systematic Theology/Ethics at the University of Basel, Switzerland and his doctor honoris causa from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

«This significant work of scholarship will be of interest to all who are concerned for church development in China and the possible contribution of European theology to that process.» (Philip L. Wickeri, International Bulletin of Missionary Research)

• Contents: The meaning of the Reformation for the future of the Church in China – Theory of Max Weber’s Ideal Types as methodological basis for an ecclesial ethics in China – The Ideal Type I is about the theological principles of Martin Luther, the Ideal Type II about the institutional church of John Calvin, the Ideal Type III about the teachings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth, and the Ideal Type IV is about the ethical model of Confucianism.