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texts and history of the first encounter of Christianity with China
1 online resource (xviii, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps.
"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"--
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 --
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)
Matteo Nicolini-Zani ; translated by William Skudlarek.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2022
Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,c2022