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| Journey to the East: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Early Reception of St. Augustine in China | ||
| 作者 | Gao, Yuan (著) |
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| 出處題名 | International Journal of Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.16 n.2 Special Issue |
| 出版日期 | 2019.07 |
| 頁次 | 117 - 129 |
| 出版者 | Cambridge University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.cambridge.org/ |
| 出版地 | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | philosophical inquiry; Augustine; religious values; China |
| 摘要 | In modern scholarship, much ink has been spilled over the significance of St. Augustine in the history of Western philosophy and theology. However, little effort has been made to clarify the legacy of Augustine in East Asia, especially his contribution to China during the early Jesuit missionary work through the Maritime Silk Road. The present article attempts to fill this lacuna and provide a philosophical analysis of the encounter of Chinese indigenous religions with St Augustine, by inquiring into why and how Augustine was taken as a model for the Chinese in their acceptance of the Christian faith. The analysis is split into three parts. The first part reflects on the contemporary disputations over the quality of the paraphrasing work of the early Jesuits, analyzing the validity of the allegedly careless inaccuracies in their introduction of Augustine's biography. The second part analyses some rarely discussed Chinese translations of Augustine, which I recently found in the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, with particular focus on their ideological context. In particular, the paraphrased text concerning Augustine's theory of sin and the two cities will be highlighted. The third part goes a step further in exploring the reason why Augustine was considered an additional advantage in dealing with the conflicts between Christian and Confucian values. The primary contribution this essay makes is to present a philosophical inquiry into the role of Augustine in the early acceptance of Christianity in China by suggesting that a strategy of “Confucian-Christian synthesis” had been adopted by the Jesuit missionaries. Thereby, they accommodated Confucian terms without dropping the core values of the orthodox Catholic faith. The conclusion revisits the critics’ arguments and sums up with an evaluation of the impact of Augustine's religious values in the indigenization of Christianity in China. |
| 目次 | Controversies on the Early Chinese Biography of Augustine 118 The Early Chinese Manuscripts of Augustine and the Strategy of the "Confucian–Christian Synthesis" 122 The Role of Augustine in the Encounter of Confucian-Christian Values 126 Concluding Remarks 128 |
| ISSN | 14795914 (P); 14795922 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1017/S1479591419000135 |
| 點閱次數 | 69 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.05.17 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.05.17 |
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