ABSTRACT
When a large group within a society believes in a certain thing, it must have an effect, and thus it becomes an important social problem. Christianity has been in China for four or five hundred years. During the Middle Ages in Europe, Christians who supposedly had a reputation for religious faith persecuted scientists and liberal thinkers as men who had committed sin. The physical expressions of the desires and emotions belong to the lowest level of human activity and represent universal human nature. For Ch'en, Christ's doctrine of universal love was the essence of Christianity and also one of the sources of Western dynamism. Ch'en failed, however, to find in Christianity the all-embracing ideology or organizational techniques he desired and soon moved on to communism. His intellectual journey parallels that later taken by a number of educated Chinese Christians, including Wu Yao-tsung.
