Confucian Timely Mean and Christian Discernment

ISBN-13: 9781032459233 / Twarda / 2023 / 234 str.

Sung-Hae Kim

Opis

This book explores the notion of timely mean, a virtue established in the Confucian tradition, in dialogue with the Christian understanding of discernment, especially as used in spirituality studies.

Spis treści

Preface

1 Spirituality of Discernment

2 Balancing the Scale in the Analects and Discernment of the Spirits in the Prophets of the Hebrew Bible 

3 Time in Mencius and Kairos in the New Testament

4 Xunzi's Deliberation and Encounter of Two Horizons

5 Christian Understanding of the Book of Changes

6 Timely Action in the Book of Changes and Cassian's Discretion

7 The Confucian Timely Mean in the Doctrine of the Mean

8 Dong Zhongshu's Yinyang and Benedict's Discretion 

9 Zhu Xi's Timely Mean and Thomas Aquinas' Prudence

10 Wang Yangming's Innate Knowledge and the Contemplative Prudence in the Cloud of Unknowing

11 T'oegye Yi Hwang’s Holdinging Fast the Mean and Ignatius Loyola’s Discernment of Spirits

12 Yulgok Yi I's Timely Governance and Vincent de Paul's Social Discernment

13 Tasan Chǒng Yagyong's Timely Mean : Fusion of Confucian and Christian Traditions of Discernment

14 Contemporary Vision: Discernment and Dialogue

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O autorze

Sung-Hae Kim, S.C., is a professor emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. She holds an M.A. in theology from Marquette University and a Th.D. in comparative study of religions from Harvard University and is a member of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill.