Relaying the Epistemic Foundations of a Transcultural Natural Theology: Proving the Existence of God in Valignano's Catechismus christianae fidei and Ruggieri's Tianzhu shilu

When European missionaries first entered Asia and the New World, they largely transposed to their new contexts European catechisms that assumed the intellectual passivity of the catechumen. The Jesuits, however, soon realized that such textual models would not be appropriate in East Asia which boast...

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Main Author: Canaris, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Iter Press 2021
In: Renaissance and reformation
Year: 2021, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-58
IxTheo Classification:BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBM Asia
NBC Doctrine of God
RF Christian education; catechetics
RJ Mission; missiology
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