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Syriac Christians in Tang China : Chinese texts and theologies / Alexis Balmont.
LIBRA BX154.C4 B356 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balmont, Alexis, 1988- author.
- Series:
- Orientalia--patristica--oecumenica ; v. 23.
- Orientalia--patristica--oecumenica ; vol. 23
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Syriac Christians--China--History.
- Syriac Christians.
- Syriac Christians--China--History--Sources.
- China--Church history--To 1500.
- China.
- Theology--China--To 1500.
- Theology.
- Syriac Christians--China.
- Genre:
- primary sources.
- Primary sources.
- Physical Description:
- 289 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Wien : Lit, [2025]
- Language Note:
- Original texts in Chinese with parallel English translation; critical matter in English.
- Summary:
- "Christianity reached China through Syriac Christians centuries before Catholic missions began. Seven Chinese texts (from the 7th to 10th century) reveal this fascinating episode through apologetic works, mystical dialogues and liturgical prayers that incorporate Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian terminology, showing Christianity's creative encounter with Chinese culture. This volume presents them in bilingual editions; annotated and commented, with introductions. The first English critical edition since 1951 is essential for scholars in theology, Church history, sinology and comparative religion."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Dietmar W. Winkler
- General introduction
- The discourse on God
- The book of the messiah
- The stele of the spread in China of the luminous teaching
- The book of the revelation of the perfect principle of the primary origin
- The book of those who seek the joy and peace of the mystics
- The hymn to the trinity to receive salvation
- The book of the honored
- Glossary of the main Christian terms
- Correspondance between the sources and recent translations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266), index, and glossary.
- Other Format:
- PDF version
- ISBN:
- 9783643918635
- 3643918631
- OCLC:
- 1545736978
- Publisher Number:
- 9783643918635
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