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撮要

本文旨在討論中國教會的組織建設問題。上世紀五十年代，「三自」因應政治需要而建立，並隨即取得中國教會的領導地位，但它卻不是中國教會的正式行政組織。至於八十年代成立的中國基督教協會，也無法確定其性質是教會聯合會抑或聯合教會。在實際運作上，兩會的教會性長期遭到質疑。中國教會在體制上存在眾多問題，使完善組織建設的需要更形迫切。惟是要建立一個符合聖經與傳統，並獲得政府和信徒廣泛認受的體制，卻不容易，而一元化與多元化亦成為體制建立的兩個矛盾訴求。文末特別談及近數年積極倡議的主教制的建立問題。

ABSTRACT

This paper studies the issue of ecclesiastical reconstruction of the Chinese churches. The TSPM was established in the 1950s along with a massive political and social reconstruction movements conducted by the Communist government. But TSPM has never been regarded as an integrated church organization. Even when the Chinese Christian Council was formed in the early 1980s, its identity as whether a church council or a church union had not been well defined. The two bodies (TSPM and CCC) have long been queried by their integration to the churches. It is widely acknowledged that organizational polity of the Chinese church has to be rebuilt, but to reach a new settlement among the government and the believers is by no means an easy task. The possibility of introducing bishopric to the churches is discussed in the final section of this paper.

原載於《建道學刊》27期（2007年1月），頁1-64。