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Musing with Confucius and Paul - Toward a Chinese Christian Theology (Paperback, New)
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Musing with Confucius and Paul - Toward a Chinese Christian Theology (Paperback, New)
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Yeo s intriguing volume is an apologia for Chinese Christians. It
articulates how a Chinese identity and a Christian identity can
co-exist without capitulating to some Western or other cultural
model of Christian identity. To be a Chinese Christian is to adopt
a distinctive, unique identity that owes much to both traditions
but is sui generis. Providing great resources for the construction
of a Chinese Christian theology, Confucius and Paul converge across
a surprisingly broad front. Yet, the Christ of the Cross completes
or extends what is merely implicit or absent in Confucius; and
Confucius amplifies various elements of Christian faith (e.g.,
community) often underplayed in Western Christianity. The Christ of
God as found in Paul s Letter to the Galatians brings Confucian
ethics in The Analects to its fulfilment while simultaneously
protecting the church from the aberrations of Chinese history and
protecting China against the aberrations of Christian history in
the West. China can develop a distinctive vision of Christianity,
and will fulfil its global mission if it can find its own authentic
identity. The Confucian tradition within that identity will
revitalize global Christianity. This brilliant book confronts two
fundamental challenges for culture and faith in the globalising
world of the twenty-first century: how can the Chinese honour their
rich Confucian heritage yet be transformed by Jesus Christ? And how
can the church universal be reformed through its encounter with a
Chinese Christian theology? Yeo s creative juxtaposition of core
Confucian concepts with key Christian elements persuade us that
Chinese Christians must not jettison their Chineseness. His
sociological sensibility infuses the entire volume, engaging the
most vexing social problems, offering nuanced theological
reflections on the self, trust, civil society, social harmony,
inequality, and political domination. TERENCE C. HALLIDAY,
Co-Director, Centre on Law and Globalization K.K. YEO is Harry R.
Kendall Professor of New Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary,
an advisory faculty member of the Graduate School of Northwestern
University, and a Visiting Professor of Peking University. He is
the author of 'Rhetorical Interaction in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10',
'What Has Jerusalem to Do with Beijing?', and 'Chairman Mao Meets
the Apostle Paul' and editor of 'Navigating Romans through
Cultures'.
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