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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Saeki, P. Y. 1951. The Nestorian Documents and Relics in China. Tokyo: The Toho Bunkwa Gakuin/The Academy of Oriental Culture, Tokyo Institute.
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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, J. (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
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