1st Edition

Forgive Us Our Sins Confession in Late Ming and Early Qing China

By Ad Dudink, Nicolas Standaert Copyright 2006
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

Confession in early modern Europe has been the subject of several studies. But what happened to the confessional practice when it moved to other cultures? This is the major research question of the present book as applied to late Ming and early Qing China. The origin of this research can be traced back to the Handbook of Christianity in China: Volume One (635-1800) (Leiden 2000) compiled by... Read more
Introduction; Us from Evil: Confession and Salvation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Chinese Catholicism; Buddhist chanhui and Christian Confession in Seventeenth-Century China; Illuminating the Shades of Sin: The Society of Jesus and Confession in Seventeenth-Century China; A Missionary Confessional Manual: Jose Monteiro's Vera et Unica Praxis breviter ediscendi, ac expeditissime loquendi Sinicum idioma; Bibliography, Index, Illustrations

Biography

Dudink, Ad; Standaert, Nicolas