China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture

ISBN-13: 9781481300186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Yang Huilin; Zhang Jing; David Lyle Jeffrey

Opis

Christian missionaries in China have been viewed as agents of Western imperialist values. Yang Huilin, leading scholar of Sino-Christian studies, has dedicated himself to re-evaluating the history of Christianity in China and sifting through intellectual and religious results of missionary efforts in China. Yang focuses upon local histories of Christianity to chronicle its enduring good. China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture illuminates the unexplored links between Christianity and Chinese culture, from Christianity and higher education in China to the rural acculturation of Christian ideology by indigenous communities. In a distinctly Chinese voice, Yang presents the legacy of Western missionaries in a new light, contributing greatly to now vigorous Sino-Christian theology.

Spis treści

• Foreword by David Lyle Jeffrey
• Part I: Christianity and Chinese Culture
• 1 Language and Missionary Universities in China
• 2 Three Questions in the Dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity
• 3 Inculturation or Contextualization: Interpretation of Christianity in the Context of Chinese Culture
• 4 ""Ethicized"" Chinese-Language Christianity and the Meaning of Christian Ethics
• 5 The Contemporary Significance of Theological Ethics: The True Problems Elicited by Auschwitz and the Cultural Revolution
• Part II: Theology and Humanities
• 6 The Value of Theology in Humanities: Possible Approaches to Sino-Christian Theology
• 7 The Potential Value of Contemporary Theology for Literary Theories
• 8 Six Problem Domains in Western Marxists' Theory on Religion
• 9 To Reverse Our Premise with the Perverse Core: A Response to ?Äi?×ek's ""Theology"" in Chinese Context
• 10 From ""Difference"" to ""the Other"": A Theological Reading of Heidegger and Derrida
• Part III: Scriptural Reasoning 11 James Legge: Between Literature and Religion
• 12 The Possibilities and Values of ""Scriptural Reasoning"" between China and the West
• 13 Scriptural Reasoning and the Hermeneutical Circle
• 14 The Chinese Union Version of the Bible and Its Hermeneutical Analysis
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Details of Previous Publications