Three-Self Church
| Three-Self Patriotic Movement | |
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| Abbreviation | TSPM |
| Classification | Protestant |
| Governance | National Committee |
| Chairperson | Fu Xianwei |
| Secretary General | Xu Xiaohong |
| Associations |
China Christian Council World Council of Churches |
| Region | China |
| Founder | State Administration for Religious Affairs |
| Origin | 1951 |
| Three-Self Patriotic Movement | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 三自愛國運動 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 三自爱国运动 | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Sānzì Àiguó Yùndòng |
| Wade–Giles | Santzu Aikuo Yüntung |
| Yale Romanization | Sandz Aigwo Yundung |
The Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM; Chinese: 三自爱国运动, Sānzì Àiguó Yùndòng) is a Protestant church in the People's Republic of China, and one of the largest Protestant bodies in the world. It is colloquially known as 三自教会, Sānzì Jiàohuì (the Three-Self Church).
The National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China (中国基督教三自爱国运动委员会, Zhōngguó Jīdūjiào Sānzì Àiguó Yǔndòng Wěiyuánhuì) and the China Christian Council (CCC) are known in China as the lianghui (two organizations). Together they form the state-sanctioned Protestant church in mainland China .
The three principles of self-governance, self-support (i.e., financial independence from foreigners), and self-propagation (i.e., indigenous missionary work) were first articulated by Henry Venn, General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841–73, and Rufus Anderson, foreign secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The principles were drafted formally during an 1892 conference in Shanghai of Christian missions reflecting an almost unilateral agreement that the future of the Chinese church depended on the indigenization of the leadership, and the finding of sufficiently Chinese modes of worship.Dixon Edward Hoste, head of the China Inland Mission, was known for putting the same principles into practice in the effort of assisting the Chinese to establish their own indigenous churches during the early 20th Century.
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