Zhu Donghua was born in 1969. He graduated from Peking University and received his Ph.D. in philosophy. He completed a two-year study in the post-doctoral program at Tsinghua University. He is currently an associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University. He has been as a visiting scholar to Yale Divinity School, USA, and the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, Hong Kong. His main teaching and research interests have been in Patristics, Comparative religion, the ethics of religion, and the studies of Chinese Christianity in Tang and Yuan Dynasties.

He has completed national research projects on the phenomenology of religion and religio-political relationship. He is currently working on such research projects as “Strategies of Meaning in Chinese Jingjiao and Antiochene school” and “A Study on the Homeologous Relationship between Arkaim of Yuan Dynasty and Jingjiao of Tang Dynasty.”

His recent publications include From Holy to Numinous, Science and Religion: Current Debate (co-chief-editor), A Study of 20th Century Religious Views (co-chief-editor), and several papers on religious studies. He is the translator of the Chinese versions of the Complete Works of Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture – New Testament X, and other six books.