Confronting Confucian understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation
Subtitle: a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue
By: by Paulos Huang.
Series: Studies in systematic theology -- v. 3; Studies in systematic theology (Leiden, Netherlands) -- v. 3.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9789004177260
Subjects: Christianity and other religions -- Confucianism; Confucianism -- Relations -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-319).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Aim ; Sources ; Method ; Previous research ; Motivation ; Structure and notational convention; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.