Apologeticism in Chinese Nestorian Documents from the Tang Dynasty: Notes on Some Early Traces of Aristotelianism in China
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https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2013.1.2.53-70Keywords:
Nestorianism in China, Aristotelian philosophy, apologeticism, Tang dynastyAbstract
Founded on the fact of otherwise deep connections of Nestorianism to the Aristotelian philosophy, this article hopes to shed some light on the possibility of a concurrent transmission of Aristotelianism (with Nestorianism) to China. This writing proposes that the transmission already took place during the early period of the presence of this form of Christianity in China. Taking a brief look into some representative writings about the Nestorian doctrine written in the Chinese language, this writing hopes to establish some modest, though still relevant, connections between Aristotelian concepts on the one hand, and some fragments of the mentioned Chinese writings on the other.
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Barnes, Jonathan, ed. 1984. The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation. Bollingen Series LXXI-2. Vol 1-2. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
Bays, Daniel. 2012. A New History of Christianity in China. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bradshaw, David. 2004. Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Feng, Chengjun. 1931. A Textual Research on the Inscription of the Nestorianism Spreading in China (Jingjiao Bekao). Shanghai: Commercial Publishing House.
Lieu, Samuel N. C. 1980. “Nestorians and Manichaeans on the South China Coast.” Vigiliae Christianae 34 (1), March: 71–88.
Marenbon, John, ed. 2004. Routledge History of Philosophy Volume III: Medieval Philosophy. London: Taylor & Francis.
Mi, C. Michael. 1997. “The Spread of Aristotle’s Theory in China.” Political Theory 25 (2), Apr.: 249–57.
Saeki, P. Y. 1951. The Nestorian Documents and Relics in China. Tokyo: The Toho Bunkwa Gakuin/The Academy of Oriental Culture, Tokyo Institute.
Seung, Chul Kim. 1996. “Jesus the Bodhisattva: Jesus as Predicate.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 16: 192–93.
Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō. 1934. 大正新修大藏经 (Taishō Tripitaka – New Revised Edition ), 1–100. Tōkyō: Daizō shuppan kabushiki-gaisha.
Vine, Aubrey. 1937. The Nestorian Churches: A Concise History of Nestorian Christianity in Asia from the Persian Schism to the Modern Assyrians. London: Independent Press.
Wang, Aihe. 2000. Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China. London: Cambridge University Press.
Wylie, A. 1856. “On the Nestorian Tablet of Se-gan Foo.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 5 (1855–1856): 275, 277–366.
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29. 11. 2013
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VRHOVSKI, Jan. 2013. “Apologeticism in Chinese Nestorian Documents from the Tang Dynasty: Notes on Some Early Traces of Aristotelianism in China”. Asian Studies 1 (2): 53-70. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2013.1.2.53-70.
