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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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS AND APOLOGISTS
  • CONFRONTATION BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE
  • RECONCILIATION OF CHRISTIANITY AND GRAECO-ROMAN CULTURE
  • THE LATIN APOLOGISTS' ROLE IN CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
  • THE CHINESE EMPIRE AND CHRISTIANITY
  • XU GUANGQI'S RELIGIOUS WORKS
  • A DISPUTATION ABOUT RECTITUDE AND FALLACIES
  • THE COMPARISON BETWEEN CHINESE AND WESTERN CULTURE
  • COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND CHINESE IDEOLOGY
  • CHRISTIANITY AND NATIONAL CULTURE
  • THE INCULTURATION OF CHRISTIANITY
  • GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS
  • APPENDIX
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN MISSION.