Matteo Ricci in China
Subtitle: inculturation through friendship and faith
By: editors, Christopher Shelke, Mariella Demichele
Contributors: Ricci, Matteo, 1552-1610
Publisher: Gregorian & Biblical Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9788878391734
Subjects: Missions; History; Religion; Jesuits
Other titles: On friendship.; Matteo Ricci : radio drama in Chinese.
Notes: Issued with CD: Matteo Ricci : radio drama in Chinese.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-439).
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Foreword / -- Gianfranco Ravasi ; -- Larry Yu-yaun Wang -- Introduction / -- Francois Xavier Dumortier -- I. Texts of Fr. Matteo Ricci.; title: Tract on friendship : images of documents and translation -- -- A; title: response to King Chiengan Chienzai --; title: Letter to Geronimo Costa --; title: Letter to Fr. Francesco Pasio -- -- The; title: report on death of Matteo Ricci -- -- II. Interpretative essay[s].; title: Creative fidelity in inculturation  -- Christopher Shelke; title: I am the friend and the friend is me  -- João J. Vila-Chã; title: Keep to the method of Matteo Ricci : the Kangxi emperor and Catholic missionaries in China  -- Edmund Ryden -- Appendix.; title: Letter to Clement XI --; title: Summons to the Westerners ---- Essential chronology of Father Matteo Ricci-- Extensive bibliography.