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understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation : a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue

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An edition of Confronting Confucian (2009)

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understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation : a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Motivation
Confucians as the main dialogue partner to Christians in China
Contemporary cultural regeneration bringing Confucianism andChristianity to the same agenda
Structure and notational convention
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 neo-Confucians (16th-17th centuries) and the representatives in this study
The cultural nationalist Confucians (1920-1980) and the representatives in this study
The modern Confucians (1980-) and the representatives in this study
The Christian concept of God in Chinese terms
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
Affirmative responses to the assimilation
Negative responses to the assimilation contents
Cultural nationalist Confucian ideas of the assimilation
Modern Confucian ideas of the assimilation
Confucian ideas of the object of salvation in Christianity : created humanity and its status
Human beings as part of creation
Neo-Confucian arguments
Cultural nationalist Confucian arguments
Modern Confucian arguments
The status of human beings
Neo-Confucian arguments
Cultural nationalist and modern Confucian arguments
Confucian ideas of the means of salvation in Christianity
The existence of transcendence in Confucianism
Neo-Confucian arguments
Cultural nationalist Confucian arguments
Modern Boston Confucian arguments
Modern Christian Confucian arguments
The transcendence of the Christian God and that of the Chinese heaven
Neo and cultural nationalist Confucian arguments : the Chinese heaven as internal transcendence
ultural nationalist and modern confucian arguments: the christian god as external transcendence
The superiority of the internal transcendence to the external transcendence
The arguments of cultural nationalist Confucians
The arguments of modern non-Christian Confucians
The arguments of modern Christian Confucians
Basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue
The hidden differences between Confucian and Christian ways of thinking four obstacles in the Confucian-Christian dialogue
Theological perspective : the monistic unity between heaven and humanity spiritual perspective : Christianity as spiritual opium
The political perspective : Christianity as an element of political turmoil
The ethical perspective : the Christian concept of God as conflicting with Confucian ethics
Affirmative elements in the Confucian-Christian dialogue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Studies in systematic theology -- v. 3

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Dewey Decimal Class
261.2/99512
Library of Congress
BR128.C43 H825 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23632005M
Internet Archive
confrontingconfu00huan
ISBN 13
9789004177260
LCCN
2009029439

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