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The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China

by Nicolini-zani

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.5 x 3.3 cm

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The Luminous Way to the East offers a comprehensive survey of the historical, literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources of the first stage of the Christian mission to China. It explores the complex and multifaceted process of the interaction with the different cultural and religious milieux that the Church of the East experienced in its diffusion throughout Central Asia and into China during the first millennium. Matteo Nicolini-Zani provides an overview of the Christian presence in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907) by reconstructing the composition and organization of Christian communities, the geographical location of Christian monasteries, and the related historical events attested by the sources. Through a new and richly annotated English translation of the Chinese Christian texts produced in Tang China, the volume provides a documented look at what was the earliest, and perhaps the most extraordinary, encounter of Christianity with Chinese culture and religions (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism). It shows how East Syriac Christianity in its eastward expansion along the Silk Road from Persia to China was open to the adoption of other languages and imagery and was able to enculturate the Christian teaching into new cultural and religious forms without losing its identity.
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  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    April 2022

  • Weight

    754g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.5 x 3.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780197609644

  • ISBN-10

    0197609643

  • Eden Code

    5630739

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