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  • Understanding the I Ching

    The Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes

    by Hellmut Wilhelm, Richard Wilhelm ...
    Translated by Cary F. Baynes, Irene Eber ...
    Series series
    An illuminating introduction to the ancient classic of Chinese divination—the must-have companion to the bestselling Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the I Ching, or Book of ChangesThe West’s foremost translator of the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm thought deeply about how contemporary readers could benefit from this ancient work and its perennial insights into change and chance. For him and his son, ... Read more

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  • Chinese Biblical Anthropology

    Persons and Ideas in the Old Testament and in Modern Chinese Literature

    by Jian Cao ...
    Series Book 3 - Contrapuntal Readings of the Bible in World Christianity
    In this study that is largely intellectual history, Cao Jian observes how Old Testament motifs were introduced by Protestant missionaries and Bible translators, with the help of Chinese co-workers in the beginning, and how those motifs drew attention from local converts and led to discussions among them in light of the norms in Confucianism. Then, Cao demonstrates how Confucian reformists started ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bible in Modern China

    The Literary and Intellectual Impact

    Edited by Irene Eber, Sze-Kar Wan, Knut Walf, Roman Malek ...
    Series series Monumenta Serica Monograph Series
    The volume presents the contributions of an international workshop held in Jerusalem in 1996. It includes a general index with glossary. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng

    A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance

    by Anson H. Laytner, Jordan Paper, Alex Bender, Moshe Yehuda Bernstein, Irene Eber, Mathew A. Eckstein, Xianyi Kong, Donald Daniel Leslie, Andrew H. Plaks0, Mohammed Turki al-Sudairi1, Nigel Thomas2, Erik Zürcher3 ...
    This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese and Jewish cultures helped guarantee its survival. Part I of this study analyzes the origin and ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Jews in China

    Cultural Conversations, Changing Perceptions

    by Irene Eber ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    Irene Eber was one of the foremost authorities on Jews in China during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—a field that, in contrast to the study of the Jewish diaspora in Europe and the Americas, has been critically neglected. This volume gathers fourteen of Eber’s most salient articles and essays on the exchanges between Jewish and Chinese cultures, making available to students, scholars, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • The Devil's Redemption

    A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism

    by Michael McClymond ...
    **2018 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Academic Theology)A** Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2019Will all evil finally turn to good, or does some evil remain stubbornly opposed to God and God's goodness? Will even the devil be redeemed? Addressing a theological issue of perennial interest, this comprehensive book (in two volumes) surveys the history of Christian universalism from ... Read more

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  • Anarchy and the Kingdom of God

    From Eschatology to Orthodox Political Theology and Back

    by Davor Džalto ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    " Perhaps the best book on Christian anarchism since Jacques Ellul . . . a timely and valuable addition to resurgent interest in political theology."—Eric Gregory, Princeton UniversityAnarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of "anarchism" both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological ... Read more

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  • The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations. This widely praised book explores the 1500–1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed as a leading world culture and power. Europe, by contrast, was in the early stages of emerging ... Read more

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  • The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Chinese Catholic Church traces its living roots back to the late sixteenth century and its historical roots back even further, to the Yuan dynasty. This book explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. It argues for the emergence of distinctly Chinese Catholic identities as artistic representations of the Virgin Mary, at ... Read more

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  • Contextualization and the Old Testament

    Between Asian and Western Perspectives

    by Jerry Hwang ...
    Series series Logia Series
    Christianity is often viewed in Asia as a Western imposition. Challenging this, Dr. Jerry Hwang examines the Old Testament’s cultural engagement of its ancient Near Eastern context, arguing that Scripture itself provides the ultimate model for contextualizing theology in Asia. While it is common for missiological studies to ignore the Old Testament in their discussion of contextualization, truly ... Read more

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  • Sovereignty and the Sacred

    Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

    by Robert A. Yelle ...
    Sovereignty and the Sacred challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the sacred and the sovereign as creating "states of exception"—that is, moments of rupture in the normative order that, by transcending this order, are ... Read more

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