Christian Literature in Chinese Contexts

• Main Author: Lai, John T. P. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Religion & beliefs; Prohibition of Christianity; postliberal theology; politics-religion relationship; The Gospel; Jingjiao Christianity; Figurism; rhetoric Jesuits Sino-Western literary relations; translation history in China; Marxism; Jesuit Figurists; Haiguo Quyu; Chinese Islam; sage; sheng ren; Shi Wei; Confucianism; Qing dynasty; Shakespeare; Lü Liben; baptism; Bei Cun; Ha Zhidao; Xian Stele; Chinese Christianity; Chinese Christian literature; Passion narratives; Christianity; The Yijing (The Book of Changes); Political Theology; comparative literature; Missionary in China; Yijing; Shixi de he; spiritual literature (shenxing xiezuo); Dao; Isaac Mason; Life of Jesus; Jesus the Proletarian; intertextuality; theology of religions; Tang Dynasty; Zhu Weizhi
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Christianity in China has a history dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), when Allopen-the first Nestorian missionary-arrived there in 635. In the late sixteenth century, Matteo Ricci together with other Jesuit missionaries commenced the Catholic missions to China. Protestant Christianity in...