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Manufacturing Confucianism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Manufacturing Confucianism

Is it possible that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests? Based on specific documentary evidence, historian Lionel Jensen reveals how 16th- and 17th-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient RU tradition to invent the presumably historical figure who has been globally celebrated as philosopher, prophet, statesman, wise man, and saint. 13 illustrations.

制造儒家:中国传统与全球文明
  • Language: zh-CN
  • Pages: 688

制造儒家:中国传统与全球文明

本书利用大量的材料和深刻的分析,检视了16世纪、17世纪来华耶稣会士开启的对于“儒”“孔夫子”等概念和形象的建构过程,以及晚清中西文化激烈碰撞的背景下,章炳麟、胡适等学者对于“儒”的再发明。

God and Globalization: Volume 3
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

God and Globalization: Volume 3

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-12-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

These volumes examine both the promise and the threat of globalization using the tools of theological ethics to understand and evaluate the social contexts of life at the deepest moral and spiritual levels.

God and Globalization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

God and Globalization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-06-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

In the late 20th century, the world has grown increasingly smaller because of advances in technology and the erosion of the nation-state as a political paradigm. The process of globalization—with its promises of a common culture, a common currency, and a common government—offers a new political model for the world that fosters unity and community. At the same time, however, this process threatens to destroy the values, norms, and ideals that particular cultures have wrought and established and to thereby diminish the power of each culture's unique identity. As globalization occurs, society must decide which values will be normative and what roles that social institutions like religion an...

Ch'en Liang on Public Interest and the Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Ch'en Liang on Public Interest and the Law

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Economy and Modern Christian Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 115

Economy and Modern Christian Thought

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-03-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This study examines the relationship between Christian thought and economy and raises philosophical, theological, and ethical issues that result from the engagement, and points the way to emerging research at this nexus.

Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics

The nature of ethics has been the subject of much controversy and argument in recent decades. Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics tackles these various debates, offering a wide-ranging, comprehensive, and provocative statement of the nature of theological ethics in global times. Offers an accessible, lively, and provocative statement of the nature of moral philosophy and theological ethics in contemporary times. Tackles various perspectives on debates about distinctly Christian ethics. Argues that we need to reframe the arena in which moral questions are asked. Engages a range of positions, exploring distinctively modern issues such as moral and cultural relativism, globalization, problems of consumption and violence, and religious pluralism. Addresses the complexity of certain ethical decisions, which are difficult and far from clear-cut, and yet presents an ethical understanding which is both humane and deeply religious.

What Is Scripture?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

What Is Scripture?

W.C. Smith's vastly erudite work asks how it is that certain texts have so seeped in to human life-in a rich, complex, and powerful way-as to be deemed sacred. Examining the history and use of scripture in the world's major religious traditions, he shows how and why scripture continues to carry momentous and at time appalling power in human affairs.

Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976-1990
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1096

Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976-1990

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-10-15
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  • Publisher: Greenwood

A guide to the thesis literature on China and Inner Asia written between 1976 and 1990. Includes more than 10,000 entries for dissertations in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, theology, engineering and other disciplines. Entries are grouped in topical chapters and each entry includes bibliographic information and an abstract.

Yi Yin -- Pious Rebel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 494

Yi Yin -- Pious Rebel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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