Confronting Confucian understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation : a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue / / by Paulos Huang.
A complete exploration is the first systematic analysis ever comparing the central religious doctrinal aspects of Christianity with those in Confucianism. Huang's work carefully covers the whole history of the Confucian-Christian tradition, and ends up with genuinely new insights. He elaborates...
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| Superior document: | Studies in systematic theology, v. 3 |
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| Année de publication: | 2009 |
| Édition: | 1st ed. |
| Langue: | English |
| Collection: | Studies in systematic theology (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 3. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table des matières:
- 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.