TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huang,Paulos Zhanzhu
TI  - Confronting Confucian understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation: a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue 
T2  - Studies in systematic theology,
SN  - 9789047430704 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BR128.C43 H825 2009eb
U1  - 261.2/99512 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based on print version record; Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-319); Introduction. Aim ; Sources ; Method ; Previous research ; Motivation ; 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 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 ; 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 ; The status of human beings -- Confucian ideas of the means of salvation in Christianity. The existence of transcendence in Confucianism ; The transcendece of the Christian God and that of the Chinese heaven ; The superiority of the internal transcendence to the external transcendence -- Basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue. The hidden differences between Confucian and Christian ways of thinking ; Four obstacles in the Confucian-Christian dialogue ; Affirmative elements in the Confucian-Christian dialogue
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