Winds Of Jingjiao

Author : Li Tang,Dietmar W. Winkler
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643907547

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Winds of Jingjiao by Li Tang,Dietmar W. Winkler Pdf

As early as AD 781, the writer of the Xi'an Fu inscription described the spread of Syriac Christianity (called Jingjiao in Chinese) to China as a wind blowing eastward. The discovery of the Xi'an Fu Stele, the Dunhuang Jingjiao Manuscripts, the numerous Syriac tombstones and fragments in Central Asia and many parts of China has unearthed a buried history of Syriac Christianity from the Tang Dynasty to the time of the Mongol Empire. The papers in this volume cover a wide range of topics from manuscripts and inscription, to the historical, liturgical and theological perspectives of Syriac Christianity in this geographic realm. Li Tang is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Biblical Studies and Ecclesiastical History, University of Salzburg.. Dietmar W. Winkler is Professor of Patristic Studies and Ecclesiastical History at the University of Salzburg and Director of the Center for the Study of Eastern Christianity (ZECO) of the University of Salzburg. (Series: Orientalia - Patristica - Oecumenica, Vol. 9) [Subject: Religious Studies, History, Syriac Christianity, Chinese Studies]Ã?Â?

Author : Glen L. Thompson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : 45,6 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 : K. K. Yeo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190909796

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The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China by K. K. Yeo Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China deftly examines the Bible's translation, expression, interpretation, and reception in China. Forty-eight essays address the translation of the Bible into China's languages and dialects; expression of the Bible in Chinese literary and religious contexts; Chinese biblical interpretations and methods of reading; and the reception of the Bible in the institutions and arts of China. This comprehensive and unique volume presents insightful, succinct, and provocative evidence about and interpretations of encounters between the Bible and China for centuries past, continuing into the present, and likely prospects for the future"--

Author : Chloë Starr
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781506487960

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Modern Chinese Theologies by Chloë Starr Pdf

Chinese Theologies introduces the vibrant development of Chinese theology in its many forms across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also challenges prevalent narratives regarding the lack of Chinese theologies and engages questions of the construction of theology in their own traditions/nations.

Author : Andreas Schmoller
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643910233

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Middle Eastern Christians and Europe by Andreas Schmoller Pdf

Middle Eastern Christians have a long tradition of interacting with Europe. As other minorities they have also "emerged" through relations of European powers with the region. The historical circulation of people and ideas is also relevant for identities of Middle Eastern Christians who have settled in Europe in the past decades. This volume, stemming from an interdisciplinary workshop in Salzburg 2016, brings together both perspectives of entanglement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Syriac language
ISBN : 9783643961952

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ARTIFACT, TEXT, CONTEXT by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matteo Nicolini-Zani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004384972

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Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2018 by Anonim Pdf

The Yearbook of Chinese Theology is an international, ecumenical and fully peer-reviewed series for Chinese theology in English. This special 2018 volume highlights the five-disciplines of Jingjiao theology.

Author : LIT Verlag
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643962287

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Silk Road Traces by LIT Verlag Pdf

This volume includes cutting-edge research on the spread of Syrian Christianity along the Silk Road from the 6th to the 14th century. Recent archaeological discoveries and excavations of ancient and medieval Christian sites in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and China shed new light on Christian communities in Central Asia, China and Mongolia. Scholars from such fields as archaeology, manuscript studies, history and theology have contributed, offering new insights into the influence of Syriac Christianity along the Silk Roads. Li Tang is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO), University of Salzburg/Austria. Dietmar W. Winkler is Head of the Department of Biblical Studies and Ecclesiastical History, and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO), University of Salzburg/Austria

Author : R. Todd Godwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786733160

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Persian Christians at the Chinese Court by R. Todd Godwin Pdf

The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections that existed between the Church of the East, Sasanian aristocratic culture and the Tang Empire (617-907) between the fall of the Sasanian Persian Empire (225-651) and the birth of the Abbasid Caliphate (762-1258). Through close textual re-analysis of the Stele and by drawing on ancient sources in Syriac, Greek, Arabic and Chinese, Godwin demonstrates that Tang China (617-907) was a cosmopolitan milieu where multiple religious traditions, namely Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Christianity, formed zones of elite culture. Syriac Christianity in fact remained powerful in Persia throughout the period, and Christianity - not Zoroastrianism - was officially regarded by the Tang government as 'The Persian Religion'.Persian Christians at the Chinese Court uncovers the role played by Syriac Christianity in the economic and cultural integration of late Sasanian Iran and China, and is important reading for all scholars of the Church of the East, China and the Middle East in the medieval period.

Author : Christian Meyer,Philip Clart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004533004

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From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs by Christian Meyer,Philip Clart Pdf

This volume excavates the genealogy of xin 信--a term that has become the modern Chinese counterpart for the English word "faith." More than twenty experts trace its religious and non-religious roots in several traditions, including Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, Muslim, Christian, Japanese, popular religious, and modern secular contexts.

Author : Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472512499

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ReOrienting Histories of Medicine by Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Pdf

It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world – Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz – the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent. This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history.

Author : Jasmine Dum-Tragut,Dietmar W. Winkler
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Armenia
ISBN : 9783643910660

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Monastic Life in the Armenian Church by Jasmine Dum-Tragut,Dietmar W. Winkler Pdf

Monasticism is a vital feature of Christian spiritual life and has its origins in the Oriens Christianus. The present volume contains studies on Armenian Monasticism from various perspectives. The task is not only to produce historical studies. The aim is also to contribute to and reflect on monasticism today. Authors come from the Armenian Apostolic Catholicosate of Ejmiacin, the Holy See of Cilicia, the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and the Armenian-Catholic Church as well as from the Benedictine and Franciscan Orders of the Catholic Church. The experts reflected on the glorious past of Armenian monasticism and agreed to evaluate future challenges ecumenically to give more insight into both past and present Armenian monasticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004517981

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Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads by Anonim Pdf

This volume celebrates the outstanding achievements of Samuel N. C. Lieu and his contribution to Manichaean, Roman, Byzantine, and Silk Road Studies. Readers will find his wide range of scholarly interests reflected in the contributions of his colleagues and former students.