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The theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000-1850 / Jordan Paper ; postscript by Rabbi Anson Laytner.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English, Chinese Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (170 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781554584031
  • 1554584035
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000-1850DDC classification:
  • 951.004924 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.C5 P37 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Introduction: The Four Questions -- 2 From Whence They Came to Where They Went -- 3 Life in China: Tenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 Brief History of Buddhism and the Abrahamic Traditions in China -- 5 The Sinification of Judaism -- 6 A Speculative Theology of the Chinese Jews -- Epilogue.
Summary: Traces the history of Jews in China and explores how their theology's focus on love, rather than on the fear of a non-anthropomorphic God, may speak to contemporary liberal Jews.
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Co-published by: University of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-170).

Includes an appendix of Chinese logographs for terms and translations in chapter 6.

1 Introduction: The Four Questions -- 2 From Whence They Came to Where They Went -- 3 Life in China: Tenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 Brief History of Buddhism and the Abrahamic Traditions in China -- 5 The Sinification of Judaism -- 6 A Speculative Theology of the Chinese Jews -- Epilogue.

Traces the history of Jews in China and explores how their theology's focus on love, rather than on the fear of a non-anthropomorphic God, may speak to contemporary liberal Jews.

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