Refuting Buddhism and Daoism, Knowing True Confucianism: ZHANG Xingyao and Lidai tongjian jishi benmo buhoubian Abstract: This article tried to explore the lives and family of ZHANG Xingyao, who was a Confucian Christian in early Qing dynasty, and the format, content, thoughts of his writing titled Li dai tongjian jishi benmo buhoubian (Supplements to the…
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Abstract: This paper tries to analyze and research the miracle stories (miraculous tales) of Catholicism in China during late Ming and early Qing dynasties based on related Chinese and western resources. Through exploring different types of miracle stories, this paper points out that description, propagation and acceptance of these stories in fact reflects the trend…
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The Understanding and Interpretation of Texts in Duoshu [Abstract]: With these spectacles: Tradition, Authority, Value and etc. which constitute one hermeneutist’s Vorstruktur, this essay tries to analyze the Duoshu, one book of a Chinese catholic Han Lin who was a local intellectual and lived in late Ming Dynasty. This essay attempts to deal with that…
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Zhang Xingyao and Tian Ru tongyikao: On the Catholics’ Group-Communication and Self-Identity during early Qing Dynasty Abstract: This essay takes case on Tian Ru Tong Yi Kao, with focusing on the course and the reasons of Zhang Xingyao’s conversion to the Catholic during early Qing dynasty. On the base of researching the contents of…
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Critique and Reform: the Encounter of Catholicism with Taoist Culture during late Ming and early Qing Abstract: After the Catholic missionaries entered China, they took different attitudes and strategies to the Chinese local religions such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism and popular religions. In missionaries’ apologetic writings, the authors strictly declaimed against the Buddhism,…
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Apostolate through Gifts: Social-net and Accommodation of Catholicism in China during late Ming and early Qing dynasties Abstract: Jesuits in China constructed social-net by gifts during late Ming dynasty, which provided a good outer environment for the development of Catholicism in China. Apostolate through gifts was one of Jesuits’ accommodations to preach gospels in…
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