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Confucianism and Christianity: Interreligious Dialogue on the Theology of Mission book cover

1st Edition

Confucianism and Christianity Interreligious Dialogue on the Theology of Mission

Edited By Edmund Kee-Fook Chia Copyright 2021
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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This book reflects on three broad themes of Confucian-Christian relations to assist in the appreciation of the church’s theology of mission. While the themes of this volume are theological in orientation, the dialogue is engaged in from an interdisciplinary approach that prioritises the act of listening. Part I surveys the historical background necessary for an adequate understanding of the... Read more

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Peter Phan

Introduction

Edmund Chia

PART I: SURVEY AND HISTORY

1 History of Confucian-Christian Relations

Edmund Chia

2 Confucian Ancestor Veneration and the Chinese Rites Controversy

Jonathan Tan

3 The Faith Identity of Contemporary Sino-Christian Theology

Jason Lam

PART II: EXEMPLARS AND EXCELLENCE

4 Contribution of Confucian Rites (li) to Christian Liturgical Life

Sung-Hae Kim

5 Sports and Educating to Fraternal Humanism: How the Junzi Competes

Jude Chua

6 Becoming a Shengren: A Confucian-Christian Appraisal of the Sage/Saint

Anh Tran

PART III: MISSIO AD EXTRA

7 The Transformative Mission of God: A Confucian-Christian Vision

K. K. Yeo

8 Mission as Witness: Confucian Insights for a Church in Crisis

Stephanie Wong

9 Confucian-Christian Dialogue on Social Ethics and Moral Living

Mary Yuen

10 Laudato Si and Confucian-Christian Dialogue on the Ecology

Anselm Min

Biography

Edmund Kee-Fook Chia is a Senior Lecturer of Theology at the Australian Catholic University, Fellow at the University of Divinity (Melbourne), and Visiting Researcher at Radboud University Nimegen (Netherlands). He headed the interreligious dialogue office of the Asian Bishops from 1996 to 2004 and taught at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago before migrating to Australia in 2011. He is the author of World Christianity Encounters World Religions (2018) and a forthcoming book by Routledge on Asian Christianity and Theology.

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