Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China

Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China
Author: Ruth Hayhoe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315480239

An in-depth study of Ma Xiangbo, one of the most prominent Catholic thinkers in modern China.

Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China

Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China
Author: Ruth Hayhoe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315480247

An in-depth study of Ma Xiangbo, one of the most prominent Catholic thinkers in modern China.

China’s Catholics in an Era of Transformation

China’s Catholics in an Era of Transformation
Author: Anthony E. Clark
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2020-07-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9811561826

This book features a collection of essays on China’s modern Catholic Church by a scholar of China-West intellectual and religious exchange. The essays and reflections were mostly written in China while the author was traveling by train, or staying in villages or large cities near to Roman Catholic cathedrals or other important historical sites during research trips to the country. It is clear that Clark’s understanding of Catholicism in China evolved from the first entry to the final ones in 2019. The essays included in this compendium were written in disparate contexts and in response to different events. As such, there is no obvious theme or order to the content. However, despite this, the book provides valuable insights for readers wishing to gain a better understanding of the complex topography of Catholic history in China, the contours of which have undergone stark transformations with each dynastic, political, and ecclesial transition. The information presented serves to highlight and explain the lives of Catholic people and the events that have punctuated one of the most significant dimensions of China’s long history of friendship, conflict and exchange with the West.

Chinese Public Theology

Chinese Public Theology
Author: Alexander Chow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2018-01-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0192536109

It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the last communist-run countries of the world: the People's Republic of China. Yet it would be a mistake to describe Chinese Christianity as merely a clandestine faith or, as hoped by the Communist Party of China, a privatized religion. Alexander Chow argues that Christians in mainland China have been constructing a more intentional public theology to engage the Chinese state and society, since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Chinese Public Theology recalls the events which have led to this transformation and examines the developments of Christianity across three generations of Chinese intellectuals from the state-sanctioned Protestant church, the secular academy, and the growing urban renaissance in Calvinism. Moreover, Chow shows how each of these generations have provided different theological responses to the same sociopolitical moments of the last three decades. This study illustrates how a growing understanding of Chinese public theology has been developed through a subconscious intermingling of Christian and Confucian understandings of public intellectualism. These factors result in a contextually-unique understanding of public theology, but also one which is faced by contextual limitations as well. With this in mind, Chow draws from the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of theosis and the Chinese traditional teaching of the unity of Heaven and humanity (Tian ren heyi) to offer a way forward in the construction of a Chinese public theology.

Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond

Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond
Author: Fenggang Yang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2011-11-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004212396

Confucianism is reviving in China and spreading in America. This multidisciplinary volume includes philosophical and theological articulations of Confucianism and other spiritual traditions for the modern and globalizing world, and empirical studies of and analytical reflections on Confucianism and other traditions in Chinese societies by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists.

The Catholic Invasion of China

The Catholic Invasion of China
Author: D. E. Mungello
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 144225050X

The culmination of D. E. Mungello’s forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of poverty, powerlessness, and humiliation, the attitudes of Catholic missionaries became less accommodating than their famous Jesuit predecessors. He argues that “invasion” accurately characterizes the dominant attitude of Catholic missionaries (especially the French Jesuits) in their attempt to introduce Western religion and culture into China during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Elements of this attitude lingered until the end of the last century, when many Chinese felt that Pope John Paul II’s canonization of 120 martyrs reflected the imposition of an imperialist mentality. In this important work, Mungello corrects a major misreading of modern Chinese history by arguing that the growth of an indigenous Catholic church in the twentieth century transformed the negative aspects of the “invasion” into a positive Chinese religious force.

Salt and Light, Volume 2

Salt and Light, Volume 2
Author: Carol Lee Hamrin
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2010-02-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621892735

The hidden seeds of the Christian renewal in China today include the outstanding Chinese Christians in Salt and Light 2, a dozen new life stories with lively anecdotes and photographs. These reformers made lasting contributions that shaped modern China. Working out of the limelight in their professions, they had quiet but powerful influence on early twentieth-century civil society. Motivated by their faith, they modeled essential virtues. This series helps recover a lost Christian heritage linked closely to a legacy of East-West cooperation in an earlier global era.

Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society

Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society
Author: You Guo Jiang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004282319

In Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society: A New Perspective on Chinese Higher Education You Guo Jiang, S. J. provides a unique focus on the re-emergence of liberal arts education in China. This is the first book that explores in depth the development of liberal arts education in China. Through the extensive use of first hand materials relating to the liberal arts and current viewpoints of Chinese scholars and higher education leaders, Jiang concludes that China must implement a good liberal arts education program to form responsible global citizens.