ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role and image of Jesus in two of the religious movements. The first will be the Daoyuan studied by Young, the second the “Way of All-Pervading Unity”, another unity sect originating from early Republican Shandong province. The altar at a Sanctuary of the Dao is dominated by a brass tablet inscribed with the names of the founders of the Five Religions: Confucius’ teacher Xiang Xianshi for Confucianism, Laozi for Daoism, Buddha Sakyamuni for Buddhism, Mohammed for Islam, and Jesus for Christianity. While the Daoyuan Jesus was a serene sage expounding the Dao and Christianity's place within it, the Yiguandao Jesus cries out and weeps in anguish over the suffering of the world. By the time of the 1941 Jesus revelation, the Second World War had been raging in Europe for one and a half years, and the Sino-Japanese War was already in its fourth year.
