Title Confronting Confucian understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation : a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue / by Paulos Huang.

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 319 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Studies in systematic theology, 1876-1518 ; v. 3
	Studies in systematic theology (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319).
Contents	Introduction. Aim ; Sources ; Method ; Previous research ; Motivation ; Structure and notational convention -- The preconditions for the dialogue. The legacy of Matteo Ricci for the Confucian-Christian dialogue ; Confucianism ; The Confucians who have mostly commented on the Christian doctrine of salvation ; The Christian concept of God in Chinese terms -- Confucian ideas of the Saviour in Christianity : the assimilation of God to the Chinese concepts of shangdi and tian. The neo-Confucian ideas of the assimilation ; Cultural nationalist Confucian ideas of the assimilation ; Modern Confucian ideas of the assimilation -- Confucian ideas of the object of salvation in Christianity : created humanity and its status. Human beings as part of creation ; The status of human beings -- Confucian ideas of the means of salvation in Christianity. The existence of transcendence in Confucianism ; The transcendece of the Christian God and that of the Chinese heaven ; The superiority of the internal transcendence to the external transcendence -- Basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue. The hidden differences between Confucian and Christian ways of thinking ; Four obstacles in the Confucian-Christian dialogue ; Affirmative elements in the Confucian-Christian dialogue.
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Subject	Christianity and other religions -- Confucianism.
	Christianity and other religions.
	Confucianism.
	Confucianism -- Relations -- Christianity.
	Relations.
	Christianity.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Huang, Paulos Zhanzhu. Confronting Confucian understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004177260 (DLC) 2009029439 (OCoLC)401163438
ISBN	9789047430704 (electronic book)
	9047430700 (electronic book)
	1282601660
	9781282601666
	9789004177260 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
	9004177264 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

Title Confronting Confucian understandings of the Christian doctrine of salvation : a systematic theological analysis of the basic problems in the Confucian-Christian dialogue / by Paulos Huang.

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