This paper provides an investigation into Jesuits’ use of secular dialectical strategies during the early part of their evangelization mission in China. In order to prove the relevance of rhetoric stratagems – i. e. scientific verification, logic and universalism of norms – in their attack against Buddhism, this article examines a neglected text, Posthumous Disputes (Bianxue yidu 辯學遺牘). While the Posthumous Disputes (PD) was improperly attributed to Ricci, it is a prime example of Ricci’s accommodation method. Documenting the first real confrontation between a Buddhist and a Christian in China, this text provides an extraordinary window into the first dispute between Europe and China. The secular method of accommodation modelled by Ricci to...
This paper takes as its point of departure the sixteenth-century Jesuit construction of Confucianism...
This thesis attempts to trace and place in context the developing interpretation of Confucius and Co...
On the contribution to introducing Western learning to China by Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the 16th -...
This paper provides an investigation into Jesuits’ use of secular dialectical strategies during the ...
It is usually acknowledged that since Colonialist times, Asian ways of thinking were described as we...
It is usually acknowledged that since Colonialist times, Asian ways of thinking were described as we...
This paper attempts to expand on the scholarship surrounding the Jesuit strategy of cultural accommo...
The early Jesuit mission to China is widely acknowledged as a fusion of two fundamentally different ...
Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of HistoryMarsha L. FreyDonald J. MrozekJesuits presented evidence in...
Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of HistoryMarsha L. FreyDonald J. MrozekJesuits presented evidence in...
This article analyzes the proselytical use of ancient theology that developed in the environment of ...
The Chinese rites controversy is typically characterized as a religious quarrel between different Ca...
The Chinese rites controversy is typically characterized as a religious quarrel between different Ca...
The Chinese rites controversy is typically characterized as a religious quarrel between different Ca...
The Jesuit missions in China, Korea and Japan developed subtle and sophisticated strategies in order...
This paper takes as its point of departure the sixteenth-century Jesuit construction of Confucianism...
This thesis attempts to trace and place in context the developing interpretation of Confucius and Co...
On the contribution to introducing Western learning to China by Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the 16th -...
This paper provides an investigation into Jesuits’ use of secular dialectical strategies during the ...
It is usually acknowledged that since Colonialist times, Asian ways of thinking were described as we...
It is usually acknowledged that since Colonialist times, Asian ways of thinking were described as we...
This paper attempts to expand on the scholarship surrounding the Jesuit strategy of cultural accommo...
The early Jesuit mission to China is widely acknowledged as a fusion of two fundamentally different ...
Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of HistoryMarsha L. FreyDonald J. MrozekJesuits presented evidence in...
Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of HistoryMarsha L. FreyDonald J. MrozekJesuits presented evidence in...
This article analyzes the proselytical use of ancient theology that developed in the environment of ...
The Chinese rites controversy is typically characterized as a religious quarrel between different Ca...
The Chinese rites controversy is typically characterized as a religious quarrel between different Ca...
The Chinese rites controversy is typically characterized as a religious quarrel between different Ca...
The Jesuit missions in China, Korea and Japan developed subtle and sophisticated strategies in order...
This paper takes as its point of departure the sixteenth-century Jesuit construction of Confucianism...
This thesis attempts to trace and place in context the developing interpretation of Confucius and Co...
On the contribution to introducing Western learning to China by Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the 16th -...