Catholicity Under Heaven: Reformed Ecclesiology and Chinese Visions of Cosmopolitanism

Abstract Reformed catholicity suffers from a fragility that causes it to easily fragment over comparatively small differences. This study wagers an important resource can be useful for addressing this problem is the Chinese philosophy of tianxia. The article introduces idea ‘Reformed under Heaven’ by placing more liberal interpretation tianxia in conversation with problems approaches church’s catholicity. In doing so, demonstrates tianxia’ s ecclesiological usefulness while articulating two dimensions deepen how churches inhabit ways promote unity.