Confronting Confucian: understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation; a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue
Introduction -- Motivation -- Confucians as the main dialogue partner to Christians in China -- Contemporary cultural regeneration bringing Confucianism andChristianity to the same agenda -- Structure and notational convention -- The preconditions for the dialogue -- The legacy of Matteo Ricci for t...
| Published in: | Studies in systematic theology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2009
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| In: |
Studies in systematic theology (3)
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in systematic theology
3 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Redemption
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Confucianism
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| Further subjects: | B
Confucianism
Relations
Christianity
B Christianity and other religions Confucianism |
| Summary: | Introduction -- Motivation -- Confucians as the main dialogue partner to Christians in China -- Contemporary cultural regeneration bringing Confucianism andChristianity to the same agenda -- Structure and notational convention -- The preconditions for the dialogue -- The legacy of Matteo Ricci for the Confucian-Christian dialogue -- Confucianism -- The Confucians who have mostly commented on the Christian doctrine of salvation -- The neo-Confucians (16th-17th centuries) and the representatives in this study -- The cultural nationalist Confucians (1920-1980) and the representatives in this study -- The modern Confucians (1980-) and the representatives in this study -- The Christian concept of God in Chinese terms -- Confucian ideas of the Saviour in Christianity : the assimilation of God to the Chinese concepts of Shangdi and Tian -- The neo-Confucian ideas of the assimilation -- Affirmative responses to the assimilation -- Negative responses to the assimilation contents -- Cultural nationalist Confucian ideas of the assimilation -- Modern Confucian ideas of the assimilation -- Confucian ideas of the object of salvation in Christianity : created humanity and its status -- Human beings as part of creation -- Neo-Confucian arguments -- Cultural nationalist Confucian arguments -- Modern Confucian arguments -- The status of human beings -- Neo-Confucian arguments -- Cultural nationalist and modern Confucian arguments -- Confucian ideas of the means of salvation in Christianity -- The existence of transcendence in Confucianism -- Neo-Confucian arguments -- Cultural nationalist Confucian arguments -- Modern Boston Confucian arguments -- Modern Christian Confucian arguments -- The transcendence of the Christian God and that of the Chinese heaven -- Neo and cultural nationalist Confucian arguments : the Chinese heaven as internal transcendence -- ultural nationalist and modern confucian arguments: the christian god as external transcendence -- The superiority of the internal transcendence to the external transcendence -- The arguments of cultural nationalist Confucians -- The arguments of modern non-Christian Confucians -- The arguments of modern Christian Confucians -- Basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue -- The hidden differences between Confucian and Christian ways of thinking four obstacles in the Confucian-Christian dialogue -- Theological perspective : the monistic unity between heaven and humanity spiritual perspective : Christianity as spiritual opium -- The political perspective : Christianity as an element of political turmoil -- The ethical perspective : the Christian concept of God as conflicting with Confucian ethics -- Affirmative elements in the Confucian-Christian dialogue |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004177264 |