ABSTRACT
Christians have always had to recognize that the real record of gesta Dei per Sinenses might be very different from the apparent one. “Fight selfishness; serve the people” is the ethical core of Mao Zedong Thought. Fundamentally, Christianity is a “hermeneia,” an interpretation - lived before being rationalized - of Old and New Testament history, and, for that reason, of all history, starting from the historical phenomenon of Jesus, seen in the light of faith in the resurrection. Maoism itself has a transcendent dimension both in the self-transcendence of the individual person through identification with the masses, and in transcendence of the present by the vision of the future goad. Though there is a fundamental difference between the two modes of experiencing transcendence, stress on the difference alone will serve no useful purpose. China's success in the name of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong.
