China, Christianity, and the question of culture
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Waco, TX
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781481300186
Description: Although the reputation of European and American missionaries to China has been in low repute in China itself for a long time, a different, far more generous accounting of the work of Western missionaries has begun to appear in the scholarship of Chinese cultural and intellectual historians. This book represents this recent turn and reminds us that missionaries accomplished intellectual as well as religious work of abiding value.--Foreword.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / David Lyle Jeffrey; title: Part one : Christianity and Chinese culture.; title: Language and missionary universities in China; title: Three questions in the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity; title: Inculturation or contextualization: interpretation of Christianity in the context of Chinese culture; title: "Ethicized" Chinese-language Christianity and the meaning of Christian ethics; title: The contemporary significance of theological ethics: the true problems elicited by Auschwitz and the Cultural Revolution; title: Part two : Theology and humanities.; title: The value of theology in humanities: possible approaches to Sino-Christian theology; title: The potential value of contemporary theology for literary theories; title: Six problem domains in Western Marxists' theory on religion; title: To reverse our premise with the perverse core: a response to Žižek's "theology" in Chinese context; title: From "difference" to "the other": a theological reading of Heidegger and Derrida; title: Part three : Scriptural reasoning.; title: James Legge: between literature and religion; title: The possibilities and values of "scriptural reasoning" between China and the West; title: Scriptural reasoning and the hermeneutical circle; title: The Chinese Union Version of the Bible and its hermeneutical analysis