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Moral Triumph

The Public Face of Christianity in China

By: Zhibin Xie

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Moral Triumph

The Public Face of Christianity in China

By: Zhibin Xie

This book addresses the issue of Christianity in public life in China through methodological and constructive approaches. It aims to answer the following questions: How does Christianity, with its moral and spiritual resources, engage in and contribute to public life in China? How does Christianity operate amidst a background of religious diversity, cultural and social dynamics, and political realities in China? The distinctive contribution of this book is that it moves beyond simple description and evaluation of what is happening in Chinese Christianity toward a constructive theology for the distinctive realities of Chinese culture, society, and politics. This book proposes Christian public responsibility in order to identify the moral problems in Chinese public life. It attempts to enhance a public face of Christianity in China theologically and ethically by activating Christian resources in response to public life and highlighting Christianity's moral impact on the state and civil society without "the imposition of confessional bonds" or "the exercise of authoritarian control." (quoted from Abraham Kuyper). This book relies on both methodological and constructive approaches to define the meaning of public theology while making theological efforts to engage in public issues constructively in the Chinese context. Besides the Western Christian public theologians such as Kuyper, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Nicholas Wolterstorff, this book extensively refers to Chinese resources such as Christian thinkers, philosophers and social scientists, etc. to perceive public theology in China. This new formulation of Christian public theology in China desires to engage with Chinese experiences, struggles, traditions and ideology such as Confucianism and communism when investigating moral responses to public issues such as social justice, human rights, and religious freedom. A Christian co-construction with philosophical and social scientific perspectives on public life will lead to the modification of moral vocabulary in Chinese public life.

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Fortress Press

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1506486819

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Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China

By: Zhibin Xie

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Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China

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This book addresses the issue of public religion and its implications in Chinese society. Zhibin Xie explores various normative considerations concerning the appropriate role of religion in public political life in a democratic culture. Besides drawing on the theoretical discourse on religion in the public sphere from Western academics, it holds that the issue of religion in Chinese politics should be addressed by paying attention to characteristics of religious diversity and its political context in China. This leads to a position of "liberal-constrained public religion" in China, which encourages religious contribution to the public sphere as a substantial component of religious liberty in China on the one hand and proposes some constraints both upon government and religions for regulating religious political discourse on the other.

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265

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Routledge

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1351904663

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Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume 1

Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

By: Zhibin Zhang,Paul U. Unschuld

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Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume 1

Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

By: Zhibin Zhang,Paul U. Unschuld

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518Ð1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.

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Univ of California Press

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0520283953

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9780520283954

Moral Triumph

The Public Face of Christianity in China

By: Zhibin Xie

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The Public Face of Christianity in China

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This book examines Christianity in China by building a constructive theology for the distinctive realities of Chinese culture, society, and politics. It proposes Christian public responsibility to identify the moral problems in Chinese public life and proposes a public face of Christianity in China theologically and ethically.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506486800

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9781506486802

Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China

By: Zhibin Xie

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Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1

Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

By: Zhibin Zhang,Paul U. Unschuld

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Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1

Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

By: Zhibin Zhang,Paul U. Unschuld

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.

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0520959655

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Moral Triumph

Moral Triumph

Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China

Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China

Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume 1

Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume 1

Moral Triumph

Moral Triumph

Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China

Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1

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