In this illuminating study, Dr. Timothy Garner Conkling addresses five foundational questions about the PRC house-church movement. How did the Protestant house-church movement develop? What factors contribute to its rapid growth? Why are house-church Christians persecuted by the government? What strategies of resistance are mobilized by house-church Christians in response? What role does the international community have in pressuring the PRC to expand the boundaries of religious freedom? Motivated by a historical, evangelical theology, China's house-church Protestants balance patriotic...