Wang Weifan (simplified Chinese: 汪维藩; traditional Chinese: 汪維藩; pinyin: Wāng Wéifān; 1927–2015) was an evangelical Christian leader of the state-sanctioned Protestant church of mainland China, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement.
[2][3] Wang Weifan was born into a non-Christian home in Taizhou, Jiangsu province.
Wang would go onto further studies in China Theological Seminary in Hangzhou (Chinese: 杭州中国神学院; pinyin: Hángzhōu Zhōngguó shénxuéyuàn), which would later merge with Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (Chinese: 金陵协和神学院; pinyin: Jīnlíng xiéhé shénxuéyuàn) in 1952.
Borrowing from the Yijing, he was known for his idea of the "ever-generating God" (Chinese: 生生神; pinyin: shēng shēng shén): The central theological idea focuses on the word sheng (“life”).
[5]Like other leaders of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement such as K. H. Ting, Wang also spoke of a cosmic Christology, with a strong emphasis on the Incarnation, and held to a Christocentric mysticism.