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Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that
early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any
non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this
presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue
that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant
place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that
non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in
topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and
apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of
early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number
of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading
early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious
philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the
Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian,
this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought,
highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese
concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.
In this original study, Joshua Brown seeks to demonstrate the
fruitfulness of Chinese philosophy for Christian theology by using
Confucianism to reread, reassess, and ultimately expand the
Christology of the twentieth-century Catholic theologian Hans Urs
von Balthasar. Taking up the critically important Confucian idea of
xiao (filial piety), Brown argues that this concept can be used to
engage anew Balthasar's treatment of the doctrine of Christ's
filial obedience, thus leading us to new Christological insights.
To this end, Brown first offers in-depth studies of the early
Confucian idea of xiao and of Balthasar's Christology on their own
terms and in their own contexts. He then proposes that Confucianism
affirms certain aspects of Balthasar's insights into Christ's
filial obedience. Brown also shows how the Confucian understanding
of xiao provides reasons to criticize some of Balthasar's
controversial claims, such as his account of intra-Trinitarian
obedience. Ultimately, by rereading Balthasar's Christology through
the lens of xiao, Balthasar in Light of Early Confucianism employs
Confucian and Balthasarian resources to push the Christological
conversation forward. Students and scholars of systematic theology,
theologically educated readers interested in the encounter between
Christianity and Chinese culture, and comparative theologians will
all want to read this exceptional book.
Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that
early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any
non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this
presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue
that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant
place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that
non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in
topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and
apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of
early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number
of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading
early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious
philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the
Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian,
this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought,
highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese
concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.
Fred Lewis Pattee, long regarded as the father of American
literary study, also wrote fiction. Originally published in 1905 by
Henry Holt, The House of the Black Ring was Pattee's second
novel--a local-color romance set in the mountains of Central
Pennsylvania. The book's plot is driven by family feud, forbidden
love, and a touch of the supernatural. This new edition makes this
novel accessible to new generations of modern-day readers. General
readers will find in The House of the Black Ring a thriller that
preserves details of rural life and language during the late
nineteenth century. Scholars will read it as an expression of
cultural anxiety and change in the decades after the Civil War.
An introduction by poet and essayist Julia Spicher Kasdorf
situates the novel within the context of social and literary
history, as well as Pattee's own biography, and provides a
compelling argument for its importance, not only as a literary
artifact or record of local customs, but also as a reflection of
Pattee's own story intertwined with the history of Penn State at
the turn of the twentieth century. Joshua Brown draws on his
expertise in Pennsylvania German ethno-linguistics to interpret the
dialect writing and to give readers a clearer view of the customs
and regionalisms depicted in the book.
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