Confronting Confucian understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation [electronic resource] : a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue / by Paulos Huang.
Series: Studies in systematic theology (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: xi, 319 pISBN:- 9789004177260 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004177264 (hardback : alk. paper)
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- BR128.C43 H825 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-319).
Introduction. Aim ; Sources ; Method ; Previous research ; Motivation ; 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 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 ; 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 ; The status of human beings -- Confucian ideas of the means of salvation in Christianity. The existence of transcendence in Confucianism ; The transcendece of the Christian God and that of the Chinese heaven ; The superiority of the internal transcendence to the external transcendence -- Basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue. The hidden differences between Confucian and Christian ways of thinking ; Four obstacles in the Confucian-Christian dialogue ; Affirmative elements in the Confucian-Christian dialogue.
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