Many Blessings family members have published books and other works in a wide range of fields, including essays, poetry, fiction, biography, theology, archaeology, social studies, church history, and evangelistic literature. Jingjie also serves as a powerful platform for pre-evangelistic outreach.
Works by Blessings Family Members
Literary and Creative Works
1. Yuan-Yuan Zhou (Ningzi)
Azure magazine: a literary gospel magazine (2002–2015).
Essay collections: The Homeward Journey of the Heart, The Dream Seeker, Searching for the Faint Light in a Dream, The Height of the Soul, and others.
2. Rachel Shi
Biographical novels about church figures: The Apostate, The Sacrificer, and others.
Novels: Red-Wall Magnolia, A Noble Family’s Beauty, Exiled from Eden, Scrolls of the Old Palace, and others.
Poetry collections: Solar Eclipse and Stirring Wind, Song of Songs within a Song, Immanuel, Hymn to Christ, The Lord Loves China, and others.
3. Joan Liu (Xuechen)
Poetry collection: Quartets and New Songs, and others.
4. Li Ma / Jin Li
Children’s literature: The Kingdom That Leads to Aslan.
Biography
1. Min Zhang
Toward the Beginning, Recording Red China, A Record of the Rise and Fall of the Red Tide.
2. Yan Xiong
When the General Caught a Cold but No Cannons Fired, From June Fourth to the Battlefield of Iraq, and others.
3. Yang Liu
The Eternity That Begins with Loss.
Biographical novels about church figures: The Apostate, The Sacrificer, and others.
Novels: Red-Wall Magnolia, A Noble Family’s Beauty, Exiled from Eden, Scrolls of the Old Palace, and others.
Poetry collections: Solar Eclipse and Stirring Wind, Song of Songs within a Song, Immanuel, Hymn to Christ, The Lord Loves China, and others.
3. Joan Liu (Xuechen)
Poetry collection: Quartets and New Songs, and others.
4. Li Ma / Jin Li
Children’s literature: The Kingdom That Leads to Aslan.
Theological Works
1. Wenyu Xie
The Way and the Truth, Freedom and Existence, Metaphysics and Western Thought, Four Essays on Freedom and Responsibility, and others.
Y. S. Chen
The Primeval Flood Catastrophe.
3. Zhiyong Wang
On Christian Civilization, From Faith to Faith, God, Covenant, and Kingdom, The Bible, the Holy Spirit, and the Saints, Righteousness and Mercy Meet Together, Covenantal Theology and China’s Future, A Contemporary Christian Covenantal Worldview, and others.
Barth’s Ontology of Sin and Grace, Emmanuel Kant, Karl Barth’s Infralapsarian Theology, Karl Barth, and others.
4. Alex Shao Kai Tseng
Barth’s Ontology of Sin and Grace, Emmanuel Kent, Kar Barth’s Infralapsarian Theology, Karl Barth
5. Rachel Shi
Meeting Eve in the Grand View Garden.
6. Zhiqiu Xu
Natural Theology Reconfigured, with the Aid of Confucian Axiology and American Pragmatism.
7. Aihe Zheng
Law and Gospel in Martin Luther’s Pastoral Teachings as Seen in His Lecture Notes: Finding Guidance in Genesis and Galatians to Serve the Household of God.
Galatians to Serve the Household of God
8. Y. H. Ge
The Many and the One.
Culture
1. Ling (Daniel) Li
Talking of Heaven and Earth.
2. Minju Li
Studies on Jingjiao and Dream of the Red Chamber, Jingjiao and Journey to the West, Did Tang Sanzang Go to Jerusalem to Seek the Scriptures?, and others.
3. Zhiyong Wang
America: Founded on Christianity.
Social Studies
1. Ren Bumei
On Catastrophe.
2. Baosheng Guo
The Lamb Will Triumph, The Indestructible Cross, and others.
3. Jin Li / Li Ma
Surviving the State, Remaking the Church, The Chinese Exodus, and others.
Church History
1.
China’s Jerusalem: A History of Christianity in Wenzhou, Vols. 1–2; Studies on Contemporary Wenzhou Christianity.
2. Mark Shan
A History of Christianity in Xinjiang, and others.
3. Zhongxin Wang
A Survey of Church-Run Schools in China, Christianity and Modern Education in China, and others.
Evangelistic Literature
1. Ling Tian (Tianling)
An Old Friend in a Foreign Land, The Desire for Holistic Growth.
New Media Platform
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