Traditions religieuses en chine et mission chrétienne
Jean Laporte - Collection Initiation générales
Résumé
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After presenting Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist traditions in their Chinese or Indian sources, the author analyses them, considering their historical development and their religious and philosophical values. In a second part, diverse attempts at Christian mission in China from the 17th century onward are described: a humanist attitude in the case of the Jesuits, who understood that China was a land with an ancient civilisation more fanatical and harsh with the mendicant orders, who saw only idolatry in the Chinese rites and beliefs, and provoked an intellectual reaction and persecutions. The 'quarrel about rites' poisoned the spirit of the mission and the rapports with the papacy. There was much incomprehension and ignorance in the Roman Church about the Chinese civilisation and its religious values. The invasion by the European armed forces in the 19th century completed the disaster and brought down the Empire. The author examines with sympathy and objectivity, and without bias, the 'eternal' values of the Chinese moral and religious traditions, which he detects even in the critiques their representatives made of Christianity. There is a great lesson for meditation by Christians here since Christianity aspires to be, and must succeed in being, a universal religion.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Jean Laporte |
Collection | Initiation générales |
Parution | 11/03/2004 |
Format | 14.5 x 21 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 506g |
EAN13 | 9782204071383 |
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