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Dr. Peter Bao, Ph.D.

China Evangelical Seminary North America Assistant Director of D. Min. Program of CESNA, Affiliated Professor

Major Teaching Courses:

Karl Barth’s Theology; Christianity and Chinese Culture; Contemporary Pastoral Issues, Challenges, and Strategies in China; Studies on Chinese Theologians from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Areas of Expertise:

Christianity and Chinese Culture, Systematic Theology, Ecological Theology, Comparative Theology, Karl Barth, Thomas Merton

Academic Research Focus / Interests:

Christianity and Chinese Culture, Sino-Christian Theology, Interdisciplinary Integration

Biography:

Peter Bao (Bao Zhaohui) previously served as an Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University (2003–2023). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies in Hong Kong (May–August 2009) and a judge for the Duke University Center for Theology and the Arts “Song of Songs Literary Award” (2020).Actively engaged in the dialogue between Christianity and Chinese culture, his work “Karl Barth’s Theology and Daoist Thought on Nature: From the Perspective of Ecological Theology” received Scholarship of Theology Research for the Rev. Chou Lien-Hua Memorial Foundation in Taiwan (2022–2024). “A Study of Thomas Merton’s ‘The Way of Chuang Tzu’” was awarded the Shannon Fellowship by the International Thomas Merton Society (2019–2020). He currently serves as a full-time faculty member and Assistant Director of the D. Min. Program at CESNA. He has been actively involved in pastoral ministry and teaching in the church for many years. His wife serves as the pastor of the Mandarin Congregation at FEC, Arcadia.

Education:

Monographs & Editor

Discourse in Time (Spiritual Works Collection, being published), Grand Rapids: Reframe Ministries, 2024.
The Encounter of Muse and God: Collection of Research Papers on Christian Religion and Literature by Bao Zhaohui, Taiwan: Hua Mulan Culture Publishing House, 2023.
A Study of Chuang-tzu’s Existential Aesthetics, Nanjing: Nanjing Univ. Press, 2004.
Light & Salt Series of Chinese Christian Literature (4 volumes), Primary Editor, Beijing: Jiuzhou Publishing House, 2019.

Periodical Article: Interdisciplinary Theological Studies

“The Formation Process of the Text of Thomas Merton’s The Way of Chuang Tzu.” In Study of Christianity Vol. 31(2022) :422-439.
“On a Phenomenon in the Science-and-Religion Debate in Anti-Christian Movement: the Absence of Theology,” In Journal of Chinese Ecclesial Theology Vol.1 (2022):12-24.
“God’s View of Marriage and Its Significance in the Secular Age: A Study from Genesis 2:4–24,” In International Journal of Sino-Western Studies (Chinese- English Bilingual Semi-annual), Vol. 12(2017).
“Zhuangzi’s Fish and Jesus’ Fish: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study,” in Journal of Zhuzi Studies, Vol. 12(2015).
“On the Spiritual Characteristics of Wang Weifan,” in The Watchman’s mind, Childlike Heart: Studies on the Thought and Ministry of Wang Weifan, edited by China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong: Christian Chinese Religious and Cultural Press, 2015.
“The Interpenetration between Aesthetics and Theology and its Meaning.” Sino-Christian Studies Vol. 15(6) (2014) ：131-151, A&HCI.
“Dongzhongshu’s Theological Aesthetics,” (ed.) Chen Shenbai, Religious Dialogue and Harmonious Society Vol.3 (2012), Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House.
“Insights for Christianity from Daoism and Daoist Philosophy.” Journal for the Study of Christian Culture Vol. 25(2011) :134-150.

Periodical Article: Studies in Christian Literature and Art

“The Literary Characteristics and Thoughts of Watchman Nee's Hymns,” A Century of Passing on the Flame: Collection of the 100th Anniversary Conference on Watchman Nee’s Founding the Flock Church, Xinbei: Taiwan Christian Literature and Art Publishing House, 2024, 137-155.
“The Bible and Christian Poetry in Modern China,” Co-author Rong Guangqi, In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China, (ed.) K. K. Yeo, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 347–361.
“Christian Poetry from Tang to Republic Era,” In the Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China, (ed.) K. K. Yeo, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 333–345.
“The Influence of Wu Li’s Christian Faith on His Literary Works,” in Theology and Aesthetics, Vol. 6(2018).
“The Biblical Literature and Chinese Image: interview with painter He Qi,” (ed.) Zhao Xianzhang, Literature and Image, Vol.1(2012), Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Press.
“Contemporary Spiritual Poetry Contributing to Hanyu Writing and its Existing Problem,” (ed.) Yang Jianlong, Soul Rescue and Spiritual Literature, Singapore: The Singapore Youth Publishing House, 2009.