Seeking Monotheism in Chinese Religions
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-47854-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-47854-0 (ISBN)
This Element describes the involvement of Western missionaries in debating the existence of God in various religious texts and practices in ancient China, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They examined the idea of God, the Thearch, and Heaven, and addressed the issue of monotheism in the broader Asian context.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, numerous Western missionaries were involved in debating the existence of God in various religious texts and practices in ancient China. Drawing on both the rising philological scholarship in Europe and their own field experience in China, the Western missionaries examined the idea of God, the Thearch, and Heaven as the Supreme Being in the spiritual life and ritual activities of the Chinese people. From the Christian perspective, they attempted to identify the original belief in one God in ancient China in order to convert their Chinese audience. Furthermore, they addressed the issue of monotheism in the broader Asian context by suggesting the universal monotheistic degeneration from Persia to China across Asia continent.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, numerous Western missionaries were involved in debating the existence of God in various religious texts and practices in ancient China. Drawing on both the rising philological scholarship in Europe and their own field experience in China, the Western missionaries examined the idea of God, the Thearch, and Heaven as the Supreme Being in the spiritual life and ritual activities of the Chinese people. From the Christian perspective, they attempted to identify the original belief in one God in ancient China in order to convert their Chinese audience. Furthermore, they addressed the issue of monotheism in the broader Asian context by suggesting the universal monotheistic degeneration from Persia to China across Asia continent.
1. Introduction; 2. Discovering the thearch/god in ancient Chinese civilizations; 3. Monotheism and polytheism: from ancient religion to state religion; 4. Chinese monotheism along the silk road and Indo-European civilizations; 5. From monotheism to polytheism in Chinese history; 6. Chinese religions: the protestant heritage in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; Bibliography.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.03.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Elements in Religion and Monotheism |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 255 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-47854-0 / 1009478540 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-47854-0 / 9781009478540 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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