Confronting Confucian
Subtitle: understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation : a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue
By: by Paulos Huang.
Series: Studies in systematic theology -- v. 3
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004177260
Subjects: Christianity and other religions -- Confucianism; Confucianism -- Relations -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Motivation; title: Confucians as the main dialogue partner to Christians in China; title: Contemporary cultural regeneration bringing Confucianism andChristianity to the same agenda; title: Structure and notational convention; title: The preconditions for the dialogue; title: The legacy of Matteo Ricci for the Confucian-Christian dialogue; title: Confucianism; title: The Confucians who have mostly commented on the Christian doctrine of salvation; title: The neo-Confucians (16th-17th centuries) and the representatives in this study; title: The cultural nationalist Confucians (1920-1980) and the representatives in this study; title: The modern Confucians (1980-) and the representatives in this study; title: 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; title: The neo-Confucian ideas of the assimilation; title: Affirmative responses to the assimilation; title: Negative responses to the assimilation contents; title: Cultural nationalist Confucian ideas of the assimilation; title: Modern Confucian ideas of the assimilation; title: Confucian ideas of the object of salvation in Christianity : created humanity and its status; title: Human beings as part of creation; title: Neo-Confucian arguments; title: Cultural nationalist Confucian arguments; title: Modern Confucian arguments; title: The status of human beings; title: Neo-Confucian arguments; title: Cultural nationalist and modern Confucian arguments; title: Confucian ideas of the means of salvation in Christianity; title: The existence of transcendence in Confucianism; title: Neo-Confucian arguments; title: Cultural nationalist Confucian arguments; title: Modern Boston Confucian arguments; title: Modern Christian Confucian arguments; title: The transcendence of the Christian God and that of the Chinese heaven; title: Neo and cultural nationalist Confucian arguments : the Chinese heaven as internal transcendence; title: ultural nationalist and modern confucian arguments: the christian god as external transcendence; title: The superiority of the internal transcendence to the external transcendence; title: The arguments of cultural nationalist Confucians; title: The arguments of modern non-Christian Confucians; title: The arguments of modern Christian Confucians; title: Basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue; title: The hidden differences between Confucian and Christian ways of thinking four obstacles in the Confucian-Christian dialogue; title: Theological perspective : the monistic unity between heaven and humanity spiritual perspective : Christianity as spiritual opium; title: The political perspective : Christianity as an element of political turmoil; title: The ethical perspective : the Christian concept of God as conflicting with Confucian ethics; title: Affirmative elements in the Confucian-Christian dialogue.