Christianity and imperial culture : Chinese Christian apologetics in the seventeenth century and their Latin patristic equivalent /

Christianity and imperial culture : Chinese Christian apologetics in the seventeenth century and their Latin patristic equivalent /

This book is a study of the writings of a group of Chinese Christian apologists in the seventeenth century, focussing on Xu Guangqi. Eleven of his shorter writings are included in Chinese and in translation. The first part of the book is devoted to a study of Latin Christian apologists within the Ro...

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Main Author: Wang, Xiaochao.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Chinese

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 20.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.

Subjects:

30-1699
Apologetics > China > History > 17th century.
Christianity and culture > China > History > 17th century.
Apologetics > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and culture > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Apologetics.
Apologetics > Early church.
Christianity and culture.
Christianity and culture > Early church.
China > Church history > 17th century.
China.
Church history.
History.

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Call Number: BR1286 .W36 1998

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Summary:This book is a study of the writings of a group of Chinese Christian apologists in the seventeenth century, focussing on Xu Guangqi. Eleven of his shorter writings are included in Chinese and in translation. The first part of the book is devoted to a study of Latin Christian apologists within the Roman Empire to provide a comparison for the analysis of Xu Guangqi's work. Minucius Felix, Tertullian and Lactantius are shown to have faced, in regard to imperial power and Graeco-Roman culture, a situation comparable to that of Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and Yang Tinqyun in regard to imperial power and culture in the late Ming period. The final chapters of the book reconsider general issues of confrontation and adaptation in the inculturation of Christianity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-259) and index.
ISBN:9789004320000
ISSN:0924-9389 ;
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