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Journey to the East : the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 / Liam Matthew Brockey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007Description: xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674024486
  • 9780674024489
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 266.251 22
LOC classification:
  • BV3417 .B76 2007
Contents:
Introduction -- Charting the CourseAn Uneasy Foothold -- In the Shadow of Greatness -- Witnesses to Armageddon -- The Problem of Success -- Between Tolerance and the Intolerable -- Building the ChurchIn the Apostles' Classroom -- Learning the Language of Birds -- The Business of Conversion -- A Good Method and Order -- Brothers of Passion and Mercy -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic Note.
Review: "It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This "journey to the East" is explored by Liam Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China, believing that, with little more than firm conviction and divine assistance, they could convert the Chinese to Christianity. Moving beyond the image of Jesuits as cultural emissaries, his book shows how these priests, in the first concerted European effort to engage with Chinese language and thought, translated Roman Catholicism into the Chinese cultural frame and eventually claimed two hundred thousand converts."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-477) and index.

Introduction -- Charting the CourseAn Uneasy Foothold -- In the Shadow of Greatness -- Witnesses to Armageddon -- The Problem of Success -- Between Tolerance and the Intolerable -- Building the ChurchIn the Apostles' Classroom -- Learning the Language of Birds -- The Business of Conversion -- A Good Method and Order -- Brothers of Passion and Mercy -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic Note.

"It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This "journey to the East" is explored by Liam Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China, believing that, with little more than firm conviction and divine assistance, they could convert the Chinese to Christianity. Moving beyond the image of Jesuits as cultural emissaries, his book shows how these priests, in the first concerted European effort to engage with Chinese language and thought, translated Roman Catholicism into the Chinese cultural frame and eventually claimed two hundred thousand converts."--BOOK JACKET.

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