The Interpretation Of Tang Christianity In The Late Ming China Mission

Author : Matteo Nicolini-Zani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004535855

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The Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission by Matteo Nicolini-Zani Pdf

The book contains the first annotated English translation of the Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources interpreting the “venerable ancestor” of the Jesuit mission, namely, the mission of the Church of the East in Tang China. Based on this documentation, the book reconstructs the process of “appropriation” by Jesuit missionaries and their Chinese converts of ancient traces of Christianity that were discovered in China in the first half of the seventeenth century, such as the Xi’an stele (781) and other Christian relics

Author : Matteo Nicolini-Zani
Publisher : Brill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : China
ISBN : 900453458X

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The Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission by Matteo Nicolini-Zani Pdf

Based on the translation of the Correct Explanation of the Tang "Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching" (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources, the book reconstructs the process of interpretation and "appropriation" of the Xi'an stele and other ancient Christian relics by the Jesuit missionaries and their Chinese converts.

Author : Gianni Criveller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015050813826

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Preaching Christ in Late Ming China by Gianni Criveller Pdf

Author : Glen L. Thompson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467467131

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Jingjiao by Glen L. Thompson Pdf

A balanced, accessible, and thorough history of Jingjiao, the first Christian church in China Many people assume that the first introduction of Christianity to the Chinese was part of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. In fact, Syriac-speaking Christians brought the gospel along the Silk Road into China in the seventh century. Glen L. Thompson introduces readers to the fascinating history of this early Eastern church, referred to as Jingjiao, or the “Luminous Teaching.” Thompson presents the history of the Persian church’s mission to China with rigor and clarity. While Christianity remained a minority and “foreign” religion in the Middle Kingdom, it nonetheless attracted adherents among indigenous Chinese and received imperial approval during the Tang Dynasty. Though it was later suppressed alongside Buddhism, it resurfaced in China and Mongolia in the twelfth century. Thompson also discusses how the modern unearthing of Chinese Christian texts has stirred controversy over the meaning of Jingjiao to recent missionary efforts in China. In an accessible style, Thompson guides readers through primary sources as well as up-to-date scholarship. As the most recent and balanced survey on the topic available in English, Jingjiao will be an indispensable resource for students of global Christianity and missiology.

Author : Feiya Tao
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004532120

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Beyond Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context by Feiya Tao Pdf

Beyond Indigenization, edited by Tao Feiya and translated into English by Max L. Bohnenkamp, traces the history of Christianity in China from the Tang era to contemporary times.

Author : Litian Swen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004447011

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Jesuit Mission and Submission: Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644-1735 by Litian Swen Pdf

The book uncovers the Jesuits’ master-slave relation with Emperor Kangxi. Against the backdrop of this relationship, the book narrates Kangxi-Pope negotiations (1705-1721) regarding Chinese Rites Controversy and redefines the rise and fall of the Christian mission in early Qing China.

Author : Peter Tze Ming Ng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004225756

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Chinese Christianity by Peter Tze Ming Ng Pdf

This volume attempts to review the historical development of Chinese Christianity from a “global-local” or “glocalization” perspective. It includes chapters on the Boxer Movement, Chinese indigenous movements, and Christian higher education and also contains seven biographical chapters. The author expounds upon the interplay of “universal” and “particular” aspects as well as the global and local forces which shaped the characteristics of Chinese Christianity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This work focused on China could have wider implications for modern scholarship, both in the fields of comparative history of education and modern Chinese church history, for those scholars who are exploring the dialogical interplay between global and local Christianities.

Author : Nicolas Standaert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004391857

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Handbook of Christianity in China by Nicolas Standaert Pdf

Who were the main actors in propagating Christianity in China? Where did Christian communities settle? What discussions were held in China, concerning Christianity? These, and many other, questions are answered in this reference work, which is divided in a systematic part and analytical articles. This handbook represents a true reference guide to the reception of Christianity in pre-1800 China. It presents to the reader, in comprehensive fashion, all current knowledge of Christianity in China, and guides him through the main Chinese and Western sources, bibliographies and archives. The scope of the volume is broad and covers a wide range of topics, such as theology, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, cannon, botany, art, music, and more.

Author : Koen De Ridder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 905867102X

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Authentic Chinese Christianity by Koen De Ridder Pdf

This volume intends to tackle two problems. The first is the historical framework of imperialism - until now widely applied by Western and Chinese scholars as an approach to the Christian evangelization movement in China. The theological aspect of the missionary action is seldom taken into account, nor is religion treated as an authentic human experience. In this volume two authors try to place the position of the Christian mission in its broader context. Scott Somers reflects on the changing image of the Japanese occupation in Taiwan, based on protestant missionary sources; Koen De Ridder discusses the early diplomatic contacts between China and Belgium and the position of the Belgian missionaries. A second problem dealt with is that of the native Christians. While Jessie Lutz attempts to sketch a profile of the Chinese Protestant evangelizers, Jean-Paul Wiest focuses his attention on the Roman Catholics among the Chinese Hakka minority. Gary Tiedemann explains the material, spiritual and political incentives for conversion among the inhabitants of North China, paying special attention to the socio-political profile of the converts. In the contribution of Ann Heylen we return to Taiwan, where we are offered a better understanding of the Protestant contribution to the study of the Min language. Finally, Karel Steenbrink describes the changing religious affiliation of assimilated Chinese in Indonesia during the period 1900-1942.

Author : Ad Dudink,Nicolas Standaert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000940657

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Forgive Us Our Sins by Ad Dudink,Nicolas Standaert Pdf

Confession in early modern Europe has been the subject of several studies. But what happened to the confessional practice when it moved to other cultures? This is the major research question of the present book as applied to late Ming and early Qing China. The origin of this research can be traced back to the Handbook of Christianity in China: Volume One (635-1800) (Leiden 2000) compiled by researchers of the K.U. Leuven, in collaboration with an international team of circa twenty scholars. As a reference work, the Handbook comprehensively presents many different aspects of Christianity in China, including sciences, arts and crafts. But there was one major absentee: ritual, which is often considered essential for understanding China. A first step in filling this gap was the organisation of an international workshop on "Chinese and Christian Rituality in Late Imperial China" (Leuven, June 2004). The present volume includes the revised contributions by Eugenio Menegon and Erik Zürcher and a reworked version of an article by Liam Brockey as well as the edition of the primary source he used for his article, a confessional manual composed by Jose Monteiro S.J. (1646-1720). These articles portray from different angles one of the sacramental rituals, viz. that of confession.

Author : David Strong
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925643589

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A Call to Mission - A History of the Jesuits in China 1842-1954 by David Strong Pdf

China has bulked large in the imagination of the Catholic Church for 500 years. It had been central to the missionary dream of the Jesuits for almost as long. However, only with this book's appearance has the detailed focus of attention shifted to the substantial and neglected period of catholic and Jesuit engagement with china - the almost 120 years from the second arrival of the Jesuits. Matteo Ricci the polymath, Ferdinand Verbeist and Adam Schall von Bell the astronomers and the exquisite painter who influenced Chinese painting beyond measure, Giuseppe Castiglione, have been written about, made ls of and been the heart and soul of the first stage of Jesuit impact on China - in the 17th and 18th Centuries. They brought Western learning and art to China and took Chinese language and literature to Europe. The Jesuits were the first multinational to be welcomed in China and they came with a specific method of engagement - to make friends build relationships and share their gifts before anything else was transacted, including conversations about Christianity. It remains an unsurpassed method of engagement with a rich and ancient people. But the second arrival - from the 1840's - was very different. It was made possible by the arrival of European governments and traders, many of whom came not just for financial gain but to spread their "superior" religion. This work by David Strong in two volumes is the first major treatment of the period from the arrival of the European and eventually American Jesuit missionaries under the protection of the so called Unequal Treaties through to their expulsion after the Communist victory in the long running civil war in 1949. Volume 1: The French Romance - traces the people, projects, expansion and impact of those who provided the predominant Jesuit presence. At the height of it's engagement with China, the French Government has 19 Consulates and attendant military and navy throughout China. The French Jesuits were afforded access and protection by their government and activated missions in northern and central China - schools, seminaries, universities, parishes, retreat houses, publications - and attracted Chinese nationals to join their number.

Author : Liam Matthew BROCKEY
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674028814

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Journey to the East by Liam Matthew BROCKEY Pdf

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.

Author : Eugenio Menegon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0674035968

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Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars by Eugenio Menegon Pdf

In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one. Focusing on the still-active Catholic communities of Fuan county in northeast Fujian, this project addresses three main questions. Why did people convert? Second, how did converts and missionaries transform a global and foreign religion into a local religion? Third, what does Christianity's localization in Fuan tell us about the relationship between late imperial Chinese society and religion? The study's implications extend beyond the issue of Christianity in China to the wider fields of religious and social history and the early modern history of global intercultural relations. The book suggests that Christianity became part of a pre-existing pluralistic, local religious space. The author argues that we underestimate late imperial society's tolerance for "heterodoxy." The view from Fuan offers an original account of how a locality created its own religious culture in Ming-Qing China.

Author : Jingyi Ji
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : China
ISBN : 9783825807092

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Encounters Between Chinese Culture and Christianity by Jingyi Ji Pdf

Tracing encounters between Chinese culture and Christianity, Jingyi Ji (*1962 in Beijing) displays vividly how Chinese Christians interpret Christianity in their context. The book involves both Chinese and Western philosophy and theology and will be of interest not only for theologians but also for all those exploring the interaction between Chinese and Western culture.

Author : Xiaoxin Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2589 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474678

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Christianity in China by Xiaoxin Wu Pdf

Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.