The Myth of “Rescue” and “Liberation”

Abstract

After reading Professor KEN-PA CHIN's compilation of four essays titled The Red Star and the Cross, I found myself deeply moved. Though comprising only four pieces, the book reconstructs a long-overlooked segment of the vibrant mosaic that was China's Great Revolution in the 1920s: the participation of some Christians in the Communist Party's red revolution. This raises a profoundly thought-provoking question: How could someone who, after being “saved” by God and reborn as a Christian through the “redemptive” grace of Jesus Christ, thereby ‘separated’ themselves from a sinful world—thus embarking on a new life path of “living in the world yet not belonging to it”—come to join the Communist Party and dedicate themselves to the cause of “liberation”?