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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: luminous way to the East
    sub title: texts and history of the first encounter of Christianity with China
  name:
    name part: Nicolini-Zani, Matteo
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Skudlarek, William
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Church history
  genre: History
  genre: Sources
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps.
  abstract: "The Missionary Dynamism of the Church of the East It would be an attractive undertaking for the historian to be able to follow in the footsteps of those heralds of the Gospel, who went forth from Antioch with firmness and tenacity in those early days making their way to the East . . . building new centers of Christian irradiation, creating communities and spreading the doctrine of Jesus everywhere. The interest would certainly grow if we were familiar with the challenges faced by these first evangelizers on their way to the Far East. Gaining that knowledge, however, is no easy task. Christ's teaching had to cover immense distances on its road from Antioch towards the East. . . . The details of this diffusion, however, remain obscure. There are no Acts of the Apostles, no Letters of Saint Paul, no contemporary or near-contemporary documents that might tell us how and when Christianity from the region of the Euphrates and the Tigris crossed over the mountainous regions of the Orient, how through Media and Parthia it went south to Herat and Segestan, and how it penetrated eastward, crossing the Margiana (Merv), into the region of the Oxus and the Jaxartes, and finally how it entered today's Russian province of Semireč'e, then Turfan, and then further south into the heart of China"--
  table of contents: Part I. A History of Encounters -- 1. "The luminous breeze blew eastward" : the church of the East from Persia to China -- 2. "The brilliant teaching turned toward the Tang Empire" : the Christian presence in China between 635 and 845 -- 3. "The scriptures were translated" : the first Christian texts in Chinese --
  table of contents: Part II. The Texts in Translation -- Text A. Stele of the diffusion of the luminous teaching of Da Qin in China (Da Qin jingjiao liuxing Zhongguo bei) -- Text B. 1. Hymn in praise of the salvation achieved through the three majesties of the luminous teaching ( Jingjiao sanwei mengdu zan) -- Text C. Discourse on the one God (Yishen lun) -- Text D. Book of the Lord Messiah (Xuting mishisuo jing) -- Text E. Book on profound and mysterious blessedness (Zhixuan anle jing) -- Text F. Book of the luminous teaching of Da Qin on revealing the origin and reaching the foundation (*Da Qin jingjiao xuanyuan zhiben jing)
  note: Matteo Nicolini-Zani ; translated by William Skudlarek.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Translated from the Italian.
  subject:
    geographic code: a------
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Missions
    geographic: Asia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Missions
    geographic: China
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Missions
    geographic: Asia
    topic: History
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    topic: Missions
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    geographic: Asia
    topic: Church history
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Church history
  subject:
    topic: Missions
    geographic: Chine
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Missions
    geographic: Chine
    topic: Histoire
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    geographic: Asie
    topic: Histoire religieuse
  subject:
    geographic: Chine
    topic: Histoire religieuse
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Christian Church
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Missions
  subject:
    geographic: Asia
  subject:
    geographic: China
  classification: BR185 .N53 2022
  classification: 275
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210910
    record change date: 20260318163326.9
    record identifier: in00005696118
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng