Corpus Nestorianum Sinicum : "Thus have I heard on the listening of Mishihe (the Messiah)" and "Discourse on the One-God" : a theological approach with a proposed reading structure and translation / Victor Manuel Aguilar Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Aguilar Sanchez, Victor Manuel, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Analecta Gregoriana ; v. 331.

Analecta Gregoriana ; 331

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

China--Church history--Sources.

China.

China--History--Tang dynasty, 618-907--Sources.

Xu ting mi shi suo jing.

Yi shen lun.

Assyrian Church of the East--China--History.

Assyrian Church of the East.

Assyrian Church of the East--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Tang Dynasty (China).

Theology, Doctrinal.

Genre:

Church history.

Early works.

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1124 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

"Thus have I heard on the listening of Mishihe (the Messiah)" and "Discourse on the One-God" : a theological approach with a proposed reading structure and translation

Discourse on the One-God

Place of Publication:

Roma : G & BPress, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2021.

Language Note:

Introduction, text of dissertation, notes and index in English; appendices include manuscript texts in Chinese (Appendix III) as well as a the Chinese text with interlinear English translation (Appendices I-II).

Summary:

'The formidable task accomplished by the members of the 景教 (jǐng-jiào) or "luminous teaching" community during the Tang Dynasty in China (618-907 CE), chronologically constitutes the first documented engagement between Jesus' message and the Chinese people. The entire group of Jingjiao manuscripts can be designated as the Corpus Nestorianum Sinicum, and two documents, the 序聽迷詩所經 "Thus have I heard: On the listening of the Messiah", and also the 一神論 "Discourse on the One-God", represent the main goal of investigation throughout this dissertation. As a preparatory step, the writer deemed it necessary to elaborate an interlinear version, in which the manuscripts were transcribed in sequential order and numerically organized by columns. Then, he was able to single out the different stages of development and the background in their composition of the final product that has been transmitted to us in the "Takakusu and Tomioka manuscripts" respectively. The theological value of the study focused on the individuation, exposition, and explanation of the "Christian Godhead, Christological, and Soteriological Concepts" that were contextualized using Chinese Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian technical terms within both documents. Moreover, based on modern Chinese transcriptions and different translations with a more specific philological and historical approach, the author has included his own theological translation underlining the core faith elements of the Jingjiao community. Finally, for a deeper understanding and interpretation, the writer also has integrated a "proposed reading structure" that is the principal hermeneutical tool-key to approach both manuscripts within a new theological outlook and in the viewpoint of a new redating and authorship.' --Provided by publisher, back cover

Notes:

Thesis, partly already published in 2019 in MCCJ-Bulletin.

"Premio Bellarmino 2020."

Doctoral Pontificia Universitate Gregoriana 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1079-1105) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Xu ting mi shi suo jing. Chinese

Container of: Xu ting mi shi suo jing. English

Container of: Yi shen lun. Chinese

Container of: Yi shen lun. English

ISBN:

9788878394384

8878394386

OCLC:

1240777262

Publisher Number:

99996087746