Philip L. Wickeri

Philip L. Wickeri (Chinese: 魏克利) is Adviser to the Archbishop of Hong Kong for theological and historical studies and Professor of Church History at Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Ming Hua Theological College.^[1] He is specialized in Chinese theology and Chinese church history.

Education and Academic Career

Wickeri obtained his A.B. at Colgate University and his M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary. Between his M.Div. and his Ph.D., he spent some time in Taiwan. He also earned a Ph.D. at Princeton and a D.D. at Church Divinity School of the Pacific.^[1]

Since the 1980s, he taught at Nanjing University. During his stay in Nanjing, he helped to establish the Amity Foundation, the Chinese Bible printing company. He stayed in Hong Kong and China until 1998, the year he took up the offer of Professor of World Christianity at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He was ordained by Bishop K.H. Ting in 1992.^[2]

In 2008, he was invited by Paul Kwong, Archbishop of Hong Kong, to be his advisor for theological and historical studies in HKSKH. While he became advisor to the archbishop and professor of church history in HKSKH Ming Hua Theological College, he still held the position as adjunct faculty in interdisciplinary studies at the Graduate Theological Union and adjunct professor in theology at California State University.^[1]

Family life

He met his wife, Janice, when both of them studied at the Chinese School of Middlebury College in Vermont.^[2] Together they have one daughter, Elisabeth.^[3]

Writings

Wickeri, Philip L. and Lois Cole (Eds., 1995). Christianity & Modernization: A Chinese Debate. Hong Kong: Daga Press. ISBN 9789627250173
Wickeri, Philip L. (1988). Seeking the Common Ground: Protestant Christianity, the Three-Self Movement, and China's United Front. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. ISBN 9781610975292
Wickeri, Philip L. (2007). Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. ISBN 9781608333660
Wickeri, Philip L. (2015). Christian Encounters with Chinese Culture: Essays on Anglican and Episcopal History in China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789888208388
Wickeri, Philip L. (2016). Unfinished History: Christianity and the Cold War in East Asia. Leipzig : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. ISBN 9783374040742
Wickeri, Philip L. and Chan Ruiwen (2019). Thy Kingdom Come: A Photographic History of Anglicanism in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789888528028

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Reverend Dr. Philip Wickeri | www.minghua.org.hk". www.minghua.org.hk. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
^ ^a ^b 香港聖公會明華神學院電子通訊, Author (2018-07-12). "Meet the Faculty: The Reverend Professor Philip Wickeri". HKSKH Ming Hua Theological College eNews. Retrieved 2019-01-04. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
^ Wickeri, Philip L. (5 August 2011). Seeking the common ground : Protestant Christianity, the Three-self movement, and China's united front. Eugene, Oregon. ISBN 9781610975292. OCLC 774485534.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[:0-1] "The Reverend Dr. Philip Wickeri | www.minghua.org.hk". www.minghua.org.hk. Retrieved 2019-01-04.

[:1-2] 香港聖公會明華神學院電子通訊, Author (2018-07-12). "Meet the Faculty: The Reverend Professor Philip Wickeri". HKSKH Ming Hua Theological College eNews. Retrieved 2019-01-04. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)

[3] Wickeri, Philip L. (5 August 2011). Seeking the common ground : Protestant Christianity, the Three-self movement, and China's united front. Eugene, Oregon. ISBN 9781610975292. OCLC 774485534.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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