CHRISTIANITY AND CONFUCIANISM
Hancock Christopher
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TWARDA
Wydawca:
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
9780567657640
Opis produktu
Christopher Hancock is Director of Oxford House (Research Ltd) and a Visiting Professor at St. Marys University London. Prior to this he taught at Cambridge University was Dean of Bradford Cathedral and Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in China at Kings College London. His current work focuses on the role culture ethics and religion play in contemporary geopolitics.A very topical study as the rise of Chinas economic growth and population boom has led to new interest in the areaChinas Christian population has been welldocumented: this text places Christianity in relation to a religion indigenous in China with revealing insightsTakes a textual approach so that readers can map the development of Christianity and Confucianism through their key texts as well as major themesChristopher Hancock (PhD) is former Dean of Bradford Cathedral UK and is Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in China Kings College London UKChristianity and Confucianism: Culture Faith and Politics sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural political and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to Chinas rise and China positions herself for global engagement this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation. As a generous introduction to biblical Christianity and the Confucian Classics Christianity and Confucianism tells a remarkable story of mutual formation and cultural indebtedness. East and West are shown to have shaped the mind heart culture philosophy and politics of the other and far more perhaps than either knows or would want to admit. Christopher Hancock has provided a rich and stimulating resource for scholars and students diplomats and social scientists devotees of culture and those who pursue wisdom and peace today.An analysis of the very different but not totally incompatible belief systems of Christianity and Confucianism and from there the societies that have been shaped around these faith values.List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Images Issues and Impressionism1. Confucius śThe Master and Cultural Decay2. Jesus śThe Christ and Spiritual Renewal3. Heaven Earth and śHarmony4. Humanity Society and the Search for Worth5. Character Purpose and Morality: China and Enlightenment Habits and Values6. Truth and Truthfulness: The 19thCentury Crisis in China and the West7. Memory Rite and Tradition: The Chinese Origin of a Western Movement8. Sickness Death and the Afterlife: On Making Sense of Everything and NothingConclusionBibliographyIndexAn extraordinary piece of scholarship. It contains and constitutes an entire curriculum for comparative cultural studies Confucian Christian dialogue ecumenical theology besides which it is beautifully written and a great pleasure to read. I expect that it will a fundamental part of the curriculum in SinoChristian study programs.Hancocks prodigious study of thWymiary: 246 mm 189 mm 1615 gr
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