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The main concepts of this philosophy include ren (humaneness), yi (righteousness), li (propriety/etiquette), zhong , and xiao (filial piety), along with strict adherence to social roles. This is illustrated through the five main relationships Confucius interpreted to be the core of society: ruler-subject, father-son, husband-wife, elder brother ...
The scripture itself is not considered a formal sutra, and early scriptures refer to the work as "Forty-two Sections from Buddhist Scriptures" or "The Forty-two Sections of Emperor Xiao Ming." [ 9 ] It is unclear whether the scripture existed in Sanskrit in this form, or was a compilation of a series of passages extracted from other canonical ...
Restored Mogao Christian painting, possibly a representation of Jesus Christ.The original work dates back to the 9th century. The Jingjiao Documents (Chinese: 景教經典; pinyin: Jǐngjiào jīngdiǎn; also known as the Nestorian Documents or the Jesus Sutras) are a collection of Chinese language texts connected with the 7th-century mission of Alopen, a Church of the East bishop from ...
The Handbook of Christianity in China is a two-volume series on the history of Christianity in China, edited respectively by Nicholas Standaert and Gary Tiedemann. It is a part of the Handbook of Oriental Studies [ de ] series published by Brill .
Chinese theology, which comes in different interpretations according to the Chinese classics and Chinese folk religion, and specifically Confucian, Taoist, and other philosophical formulations, [1] is fundamentally monistic, [2] that is to say it sees the world and the gods of its phenomena as an organic whole, or cosmos, which continuously emerges from a simple principle. [3]
The Chinese Standard Bible (CSB 中文标准译本 Zhōngwén biāozhǔn yìběn), is a Chinese Bible translation produced by the Global Bible Initiative and Holman Bible Publishers in 2009. [ 1 ] Status
John Livingston Nevius. John Livingston Nevius (4 March 1829 – 19 October 1893) was an American Protestant missionary in China for forty years, appointed by the American Presbyterian Mission; his ideas on mission organization were also very important in the spread of the church in Korea.
Alexander Williamson (5 December 1829 – September 1890) was a Scottish Protestant missionary to China with the London Missionary Society.He was known for his scholarship and translation work as well as founding of the Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge Among the Chinese (or the Christian Literature Society for China).