My Attitude Toward Ancestor-worship
Author: Yŏng-t'ae Pyŏn
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13:
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Christianity
Author: ZHUO Xinping
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-08-08
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 904742798X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese Christianity is fascinating and perplexing. Yet, although its existence can be dated back to the Tang Dynasty, when Christianity, in the form of Nestorianism, first arrived in China, it has not been extensively researched by Chinese academics. This volume is devoted to this topic and consists of twelve chapters, written mostly by leading mainland Chinese scholars. These writings shed light on five themes: epistemological reflection on Chinese Christian theology; interactions between Christianity and Chinese culture; the empirical and historical examination of Christian ethics and social development in China; the Chinese understanding of the Bible as literature; and the remarkable contribution that Christianity has made to Chinese higher education and cultural exchange with the external world.
Records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China
Author: W. J. Lewis (of Shanghai.)
Publisher:
Published: 1890
Total Pages: 832
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion
Author: Paulin Batairwa Kubuya
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 3319705245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement of existential meaning requires the inclusion, implication, and mediation of the ancestors. When gestures in ancestor rites are analyzed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of “ancestor religion.” This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations, and proposes another hermeneutic framework for ancestor related praxes.
The Sinister Way
Author: Richard von Glahn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-04-20
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0520928776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion—as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.
1 Corinthians 1–4
Author: Oh-Young Kwon
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1498272452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates 1 Corinthians 1-4 from a rhetorical and social perspective and explores that a divisive culture of rhetorical and paternal elitism lies behind the schisms and problems identified in the letter. This culture appears to have been shaped to some extent by the legacy of Cicero. Paul's references to "boasting" and "imitation" indicate both his subversive use, and his critique, of this Greco-Roman wisdom. In the final chapter, this analysis of wisdom traditions and their social consequences among first-century Corinthians leads to a critical reflection on similar dynamics among Korean Christians in twenty-first-century Korean-Confucian culture. In particular, Korean Protestants are encouraged to take a more positive stance towards Confucian wisdom traditions (as exemplified by T'oegye's legacy), and some insights are suggested into the ethics of imperial worship, ancestral veneration, and ethnic exclusivity.
Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World
Author: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 705
ISBN-13: 1467456829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKärkkäinen’s acclaimed five-volume constructive theology abridged in one accessible volume Providing a new and unique way of doing theology in our pluralistic world, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen presents historic Christian doctrines in relation to the natural sciences and four other living faiths—Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. This textbook covers all systematic topics along with a host of current issues such as violence, colonialism, inclusivity, sociopolitical liberation, environmental care, and more. Accessible and student-friendly, Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World is the ideal text for exploring a theological vision at once rooted in the Christian tradition and constructive in its engagement with the complexities of our global, pluralistic world.
Academy, with which are Incorporated Literature and the English Review
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Publisher:
Published: 1885
Total Pages: 620
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Author: Ŭng-gyu Pak
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780820452692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains the origin and development of premillennial eschatology in the evangelical Korean church from 1884 to 1945. It examines the eschatological implications of Korean religious thought, the eschatology of American missionaries, the horrific experience of Japanese occupation (1910-1945), and the enforcement of Shinto shrine worship in light of Korean Christians' tenacious hold on dispensational premillennialism. This book explains the place of premillennialism in the Christian life, and it deals with the cultural underpinnings of Christianity in Korean history by bringing to bear the complex social, political, and religious elements of Korean culture.
Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites
Author: Chang-Won Park
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-04-11
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1441179178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural Blending in Korean Death Rites examines the cultural encounter of Confucianism and Christianity with particular reference to death rites in Korea. As its overarching interpretive framework, this book employs the idea of the 'total social phenomenon', a concept first introduced by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950). From the perspective of the total social phenomenon, this book utilizes a combination of theological, historical, sociological and anthropological approaches, and explores Korean death rites by classifying them into three categories: ritual before death (Bible copying), ritual at death (funerary rites),and ritual after death (ancestral ritual). It focuses on Christian practices as they epitomize the complex interplay of Confucianism and Christianity. By drawing on a total social phenomenon approach to the empirical case of Korean death rites, Chang-Won Park contributes to the advancement of theory and method in religious studies.
