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Yiqian Li (李宜虔)
Tutor
liyiq@outlook.com
Specialty: Church Leadership, Methodology of theological research.

Short Biography
In the late 1990s, Yiqian Li received his Bachelor of Theology degree from Nanjing Union Theological Seminary. In 2001, Yiqian Li planted a church and served as its pastor. He received his Master of Biblical Studies, Master of Christian Studies and Master of Theology from the China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong, with a research thesis on the Holy Trinity and Political Theology, and his Doctor of Mimistry from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, with a research paper titled “The Decisions of Church Leaders: Based on Theological Studies and the Practice of the Model of Saints,” focusing on the subjects of Trinity, Revelation, and Human Decision-Making. He is currently also the senior pastor of the church.
Research interests
- Church Leadership
- Church Management
- Doctrine of the Trinity
- Systematic
- Human Decision-Making
- Methodology of theological research.
Publications/ Journal Articles
Papers published in the Journal of Gospel and Modern China:
- How did the Holy Trinity make a covenant? On trinity in the Reformed “Covenant
of Redemption” and on the relationship between God and Man; - Suffering and Salvation – The Universal Concept of Salvation in Moltmann ‘s
Crucified God; - The Shaping of Life: Bonhoeffer’s Ethics and the Humanity of Contemporary
- Decision Theory; Anselmus ‘s argument for the existence of God.