The "Heavenly Man" has been a publishing phenomenon, selling over 500,000 copies in English alone and being translated into more than thirty other languages, evidence of a worldwide interest in Brother Yun's life. "Yun" is a graphic-novel version of "The Heavenly Man" with artwork drawn and inked by Chinese illustrators to keep the style authentic. The artwork is black and white in keeping with the subject.
Brother Yun ( - )
Brother Yun (云弟兄), a.k.a. Liu Zhenying (刘振营), born 1958, is an exiled Chinese Christian house church leader, evangelist, and proponent of the Back To Jerusalem movement. Brother Yun was instrumental in the development of the Christian house church networks in China during the 1980s and 90s. Accounts about his life and ministry are to be found in his autobiography, The Heavenly Man.The Heavenly Man is an autobiography of Brother Yun detailing his life from the age of sixteen, through his three accounts of incarceration, and ending in his exile to Canada. It was awarded the "Christian Book of the Year" in 2003. The title comes from the name by which Brother Yun was known amongst the house church networks. He gained that name from one night of interrogation when he would only answer "I am a Heavenly Man!", instead of revealing his true name, in order to protect other Christians from the police.
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