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Wu, Kijin James.

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A Protestant theological inquiry into a classical Confucian idea of offering sacrifices to ancestors (ji zu).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Protestant theological inquiry into a classical Confucian idea of offering sacrifices to ancestors (ji zu)./
Author:	Wu, Kijin James.
Description:	296 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-12, Section: A, page: 5109.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
Subject:	Religion, Philosophy of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3293784
ISBN:	9780549377344

A Protestant theological inquiry into a classical Confucian idea of offering sacrifices to ancestors (ji zu).
Wu, Kijin James.

A Protestant theological inquiry into a classical Confucian idea of offering sacrifices to ancestors (ji zu). - 296 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-12, Section: A, page: 5109.

Thesis (Th.D.)--Boston University School of Theology, 2008.

This dissertation attends to the theological question of the Confucian ideal of offering sacrifices to ancestors, proposing that the Confucian idea is not idolatrous. Since the Chinese Rites Controversy began in the seventeenth century, Christians in general have regarded the central Chinese rite of offering sacrifices to ancestors as idolatrous, despite the fact that the rite often manifests itself in various religious forms, none of which is actually idolatrous from the Confucian perspective. This dissertation examines this epistemological problem and attempts to correct it by examining the rite in its original Confucian context. Finally, this dissertation frames an intercultural theological dialogue between Confucian and Christian categories on the idea of sacrifice as a way of advancing the discussion.

ISBN: 9780549377344Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017774
Religion, Philosophy of.

A Protestant theological inquiry into a classical Confucian idea of offering sacrifices to ancestors (ji zu).
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520 $a Previous studies have examined this question using various methodologies, e.g., historical, sociological, and anthropological approaches. Few of them, however, have investigated the specifically religious dimensions of offering sacrifices to ancestors from a Protestant perspective. This dissertation adopts a contextual East Asian American Protestant theological approach to address the limitations of Christian epistemology as it encounters the Confucian ideal of offering sacrifices to ancestors, and reconstruct a contextually meaningful Protestant theology of offering sacrifices to ancestors. This theological approach treats the topic as not only an epistemological, but also an ontological problem for East Asian Americans, especially those with joint Confucian and Christian backgrounds.
520 $a The existential situation in which Asian American theologians dwell allows for a reconstruction of a contextual theology of religion tracing the idea of offering sacrifices to ancestors back to the classic Confucian era. In doing so, this dissertation recovers several unique, classical Confucian religious and philosophical categories from the Confucian scripture, the Records of Rites, suitable for encouraging a new and deeper theological dialogue between Confucians and Christians. In conclusion, the classical Confucian idea of offering sacrifices to ancestors is not idolatrous to Christians and can actually provide material for contemporary Christian theology renewal.
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