Liu Xiaofeng

Liu Xiaofeng (; born 1956) is a Chinese scholar and a professor at the Renmin University of China. He has been considered the prototypical example of a cultural Christian , a believer who may lack a specific church identification or affiliation, and was, along with He Guanghu, one of the main forerunners of the academic field of Sino-Christian Theology .

Biography

Liu Xiaofeng was born to a petite bourgeois family in Chongqing, China, in 1956. He also undertook an extensive translation effort of historical and contemporary Christian texts. He returned to Hong Kong in 1993 as a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In the 2000s, supporters of this position gravitated towards Liu and circles of Chinese Straussians became active in Guangzhou and Beijing.

Liu's second published monograph, Salvation and Easiness (1988), called to cast off Sino-Western cultural differences to confront the fundamental question of ultimate values.

However, his interpretation of Strauss and other modern Western thinkers has been criticized as one-sided and even deeply flawed, with critics claiming that his defense of the Chinese Communist Party, and Mao Zedong in particular, does not go well together with Christianity, nor with Classical Western civilization as described by Strauss and his disciples.

Liu is considered to be a member of the Chinese New Left, which some scholars have identified as a conservative movement and in defense of hierarchy in the name of equality.