Journey to the East
Subtitle: The Jesuit Mission to China, 15791724
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780674024489
Subjects: Christian mission & evangelism; c 1600 to c 1700; History; Religion - Catholicism; History: World; China; Asia - China; Christian Ministry - Missions; Christianity - History - Catholic; History / Modern / 16th Century; Christianity - Catholic; Modern - 16th Century; Church history; Jesuits; Missions
Description: "It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This "journey to the East" is explored by Liam Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China, believing that, with little more than firm conviction and divine assistance, they could convert the Chinese to Christianity. Moving beyond the image of Jesuits as cultural emissaries, his book shows how these priests, in the first concerted European effort to engage with Chinese language and thought, translated Roman Catholicism into the Chinese cultural frame and eventually claimed two hundred thousand converts."--Jacket.