Noting that Confucianism and Christianity are the foundation of Chinese and Western culture, this book offers a religious and cultural comparative study from the most cardinal and crucial relationship in Confucian and Christian thought: that of the father and son. The author provides a compelling argument, backed up by close scriptural and religious readings, to overturn the longstanding perception that the Confucian secular father-son relationship established on a consanguineous basis has no comparable aspects with the spiritual based Christian divine father son relationship. In the process,...