Confucian Timely Mean And Christian Discernment

Author : Sŭng-hye Kim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1003389767

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Confucian Timely Mean and Christian Discernment by Sŭng-hye Kim Pdf

"This book explores the notion of timely mean, a virtue established in the Confucian tradition, in dialogue with the Christian understanding of discernment, especially as used in spirituality studies. It considers the historical development of these concepts, addressing the early encounter between Confucianism and Christianity as demonstrated in China and Korea, and the fusion of the two perspectives in the nineteenth century. The chapters examine some of the major scholars and texts that have influenced both theory and practice, providing insight through a comparison of representative figures from each tradition. The author contends that bringing Confucian 'timely mean' into conversation with Christian 'discernment' reveals that the immense riches accumulated within each tradition can mutually enhance one another. The book reflects on the possibility of a viable process for ethical and spiritual discernment that is highly relevant for our global age. It is valuable reading for scholars and students of both Confucianism and Christian theology as well as of applied ethics, particularly those interested in comparative spirituality and interreligious relations"--

Author : Sung-Hae Kim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000986532

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Confucian Timely Mean and Christian Discernment by Sung-Hae Kim Pdf

This book explores the notion of timely mean, a virtue established in the Confucian tradition, in dialogue with the Christian understanding of discernment, especially as used in spirituality studies. It considers the historical development of these concepts, addressing the early encounter between Confucianism and Christianity as demonstrated in China and Korea, and the fusion of the two perspectives in the nineteenth century. The chapters examine some of the major scholars and texts that have influenced both theory and practice, providing insight through a comparison of representative figures from each tradition. The author contends that bringing Confucian ‘timely mean’ into conversation with Christian ‘discernment’ reveals that the immense riches accumulated within each tradition can mutually enhance one another. The book reflects on the possibility of a viable process for ethical and spiritual discernment that is highly relevant for our global age. It is valuable reading for scholars and students of both Confucianism and Christian theology as well as of applied ethics, particularly those interested in comparative spirituality and interreligious relations.

Author : Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000264234

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Confucianism and Christianity by Edmund Kee-Fook Chia Pdf

This book reflects on three broad themes of Confucian-Christian relations to assist in the appreciation of the church’s theology of mission. While the themes of this volume are theological in orientation, the dialogue is engaged in from an interdisciplinary approach that prioritises the act of listening. Part I surveys the historical background necessary for an adequate understanding of the contemporary Confucian-Christian dialogues. It examines the history of Confucian-Christian relations, explores the Chinese Rites Controversy, and delineates the contemporary task of indigenizing Christianity by Sino-Christian theologians. Part II compares elements in the Confucian and Christian traditions that exemplify the epitome and fullness of spiritual development. It discusses the Confucian practice of rites (li), interrogates how the noble or exemplary person (junzi) competes, and outlines the Confucian understanding of sageliness (shengren). Lastly, Part III examines different aspects of the church’s engagements with the world outside of itself. It advocates for a Confucian-Christian hermeneutic of moral goodness, attends to the Confucian emphasis on moral self-cultivation, proposes that Confucian virtue ethics can shed light on Christian moral living, and offers a Confucian-Christian understanding of care for mother earth. This book is ideally suited to lecturers and students of both Christian studies and Confucian studies, as well as those engaged in mission studies and interfaith studies. It will also be a valuable resource for anyone interested in comparative religious and theological studies on Christianity and Confucianism.

Author : Paulos Huang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047430704

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Confronting Confucian Understandings of the Christian Doctrine of Salvation by Paulos Huang Pdf

Dr. Huang's complete exploration of the whole Confucian-Christian dialogue history is the first systematic analysis ever comparing the central religious doctrinal aspects of Christianity with those in Confucianism. His explanation of the idea of transcendence is new and unique. It is a must for anyone interested in the Sino-Western cultural encounter.

Author : Sŭng-hye Kim,James W. Heisig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X030566133

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Monasticism, Buddhist, and Christian by Sŭng-hye Kim,James W. Heisig Pdf

When the history of Christian monasticism is written for the twentieth century, it will include one surprising and revolutionary development that nothing in its previous history could have prepared it for: the living dialogue with Buddhism. Over the past thirty years, while Christian theologians were eagerly discussing their doctrinal traditions with their Buddhist counterparts and rethinking their characterization of the "non-Christian" world, men and women monastics East and West were sharing methods of meditation and experiencing life in one another's communities. All of this, in turn, was part of a larger pursuit among religious-minded people across the world for a revitalized spirituality, one open to the inheritance of traditions previously considered false or at least irretrievably foreign. As the essays gathered together in the book will show, with Buddhist and Christian populations almost evenly distributed and the preservation of community-based monasticism still living in both traditions, Korea is in a unique position to reflect on the ideals of a life of "self-renunciation" as they have been conceptualized and embodied in these two world religions, and to ask what meaning the monastic experience still has for society at large.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004423450

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Confucian-Christian Encounters in Historical and Contemporary Perspective by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xinzhong Yao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023465078

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Confucianism and Christianity by Xinzhong Yao Pdf

Yao (Chinese religion and ethics, U. of Wales-Lampeter) analyzes the similarities and differences between Christianity as a theocentric religion and Confucianism as a humanistic tradition. The axis of his comparison links agape, which describes the relationship individual Christians have with their God and with other people, and jen, which describes the relationship individual Confucians have with their ideal and with other people. Assumes no background in either tradition. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : James Legge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590592734

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Confucianism in relation to Christianity, a paper by James Legge Pdf

Author : Gregg A. Ten Elshof
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802872487

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Confucius for Christians by Gregg A. Ten Elshof Pdf

"This book by Gregg Ten Elshof explores ways of using resources from the Confucian wisdom tradition to inform Christian living. Neither highlighting nor diminishing the differences between Confucianism and Christianity, Ten Elshof reflects on perennial human questions with the teachings of both Jesus and Confucius in mind. In examining such subjects as family, learning, and ethics, Ten Elshof sets the typical Western worldview against the Confucian worldview and considers how each of them lines up with the teachings of Jesus. Ten Elshof points to much that is deep and helpful in the Confucian tradition, and he shows how reflection on the teachings of Confucius can inspire a deeper and richer understanding of what it really means to live the Jesus way."--Publisher's description.

Author : Arne Redse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004302587

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'Justification by Grace Alone' Facing Confucian Self-Cultivation by Arne Redse Pdf

This book is an attempt at contextualizing the Christian doctrine of justification by faith – as an act of God’s grace alone. The target is Chinese contexts as influenced by the New Confucian idea of attaining sagehood by means of self-cultivation.

Author : John D. Young
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9622090370

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Confucianism and Christianity by John D. Young Pdf

This is a pioneer study of the Christian missionaries in late Ming and early Ch'ing China - in the sense that it draws upon source-materials hitherto neglected to give an entirely new perspective on the history of the first meeting between East and West. The book centres around a major theme: the first 'confrontation' between the Supreme Ultimate (or T'ien) of the Confucian cosmological order and the Christian anthropomorphic God as conveyed to the Chinese literati by the Western missionaries. This encounter, which is of an historical as well as metaphysical nature, also involves a conflict between two diametrically opposed value systems of human socio-ethical obligations. This study begins by examining the genesis of the Jesuit policy of accommodation and how the missionaries developed their particular approach. But the author probes beyond traditional scholarship and argues that Matteo Ricci was successful in convincing some Confucianists, notably Hsü Kuang-ch'i, of the universality of Christianity; On the other hand, the majority of the literati felt threatened by the 'heterodox' teaching and argued against it. Finally, the K'ang-hsi Emperor had to mediate, and the result was the end of the first phase of Western activities in the Middle Kingdom. Throughout, the major emphasis is on how one idea-namely, the idea of GOd-was viewed by the 'barbarians' from the West and by the Confucian I iterati.

Author : Theodore T. Y. Yeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004865393

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Confucianism, Christianity & China by Theodore T. Y. Yeh Pdf

Author : Weiming Tu,Mary Evelyn Tucker
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015059550882

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Confucian Spirituality by Weiming Tu,Mary Evelyn Tucker Pdf

The second and final volume of the most important work ever to appear in English on Confucian spiritual thought and practice.

Author : Michael R. Slater,Erin M. Cline,Philip J. Ivanhoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 0268107726

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Confucianism and Catholicism by Michael R. Slater,Erin M. Cline,Philip J. Ivanhoe Pdf

"Confucianism and Catholicism are among the most influential religious traditions and share a long and intricate relationship. Beginning with the work of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the nature of this relationship has sometimes generated great debate, which is still alive today. The ten essays in this volume continue and advance this long conversation. Written by specialists in both traditions, the essays are organized into two groups. Those in the first group focus primarily on the historical and cultural contexts in which Confucianism and Catholicism encountered one another in the four major Confucian cultures of East Asia (China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan). These essays seek to understand specific figures, texts, and issues in light of those broader contexts. The essays in the second part offer comparative and constructive studies of specific figures, texts, and issues in the Confucian and Catholic traditions from both theological and philosophical perspectives. By bringing these historical and constructive perspectives together, this volume seeks not only to understand the past dialogue between these traditions, but also to renew and reinvigorate the conversation between them today. In light of the unprecedented expansion of Eastern Asian influence in recent decades, and considering the myriad of challenges and new opportunities faced by both the Confucian and Catholic traditions in a world that is rapidly becoming globalized, this volume could not be more timely. Confucianism and Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dialogue will be of interest to professional theologians, historians, and scholars of religion, as well as those who work in interreligious dialogue"--

Author : Christopher Hancock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 0567696405

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Christianity and Confucianism by Christopher Hancock Pdf

List of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Images, Issues and Impressionism -- 1. Confucius, 'The Master', and Cultural Decay -- 2. Jesus, 'The Christ', and Spiritual Renewal -- 3. Heaven, Earth and 'Harmony' -- 4. Humanity, Society and the Search for Worth -- 5. Character, Purpose and Morality: China and Enlightenment Habits and Values -- 6. Truth and Truthfulness: The -- 19.h-Century Crisis in China and the West -- 7. Memory, Rite and Tradition: The Chinese Origin of a Western Movement -- 8. Sickness, Death and the Afterlife: On Making Sense of Everything and Nothing -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.