regions’ culture based on “justice- and love-centered Christian ethics,” churches and Christians are holding fast to their faith ideology and its application principles, not giving up meeting and worshiping together, popularizing the model of using the law to defend their rights, and influencing church and society. This model has pushed forward the development of civil society in China and facilitated the birth of a new form of church-state relations. To sum up, the model of a constitutional citizenship society and church-state relations, an institutional cultural capital borrowed from the West, is being contextualized in China in a positive way through Christianity’s “new culture movement,” and it will avoid the situation that exists in the modern Western model of a civil society from which a code of ethics is absent.

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