英文摘要 |
The author uses surveillance documents from state intelligence agencies to explain why the Kuomintang (KMT) state failed to govern the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan (PCT) during the country's martial law era. This analysis of state church relationships takes the factor of international environment seriously. State-church interactions unfolded in three phases: first, the partystate tried to isolate the PCT from foreign influences in order to purify the church politically. Second, the KMT tried to infiltrate and surveil the PCT after the church made a controversial policy decision in 1977. Third, the state felt increasing international pressure (especially from Washington) even though it was covertly trying to influence a PCT election to establish a statefriendly church leadership. The author argues that KMT various attempts to control the relationship hardly succeeded, and that the primary reason was a transnational Presbyterian Church network operating at a time when the party-state needed Cold War support from the West. |