World-Perfection and the First Being: Introduction of Scholastic Debates into Late Ming China by the Jesuits

This paper examines the intellectual encounter between Jesuit Scholastic metaphysics and Late Ming neo-Confucian cosmology, focusing on the question of the world’s perfection as introduced in the 1628 work Huanyou quan (Explanation of the great being)—a translation of the Jesuit Coimbra commentary o...

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Main Author: Zhu, Hailin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2026
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2026, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-95
Further subjects:B Huanyou quan
B the First Being
B Late Ming China
B World-Perfection
B Jesuits
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