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  • An Illustrated Life of Christ Presented to the Chinese Emperor

    The History of Jincheng shuxiang (1640)

    by Nicolas Standaert ...
    Series series Monumenta Serica Monograph Series
    A renewed attention to visual culture is one of the recent developments in the study of cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The subject of this book is the illustrated Life of Christ presented to the Chinese emperor in 1640 by the Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592-1666). The origin of the work is a small parchment booklet ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Remapping the World in East Asia

    Toward a Global History of the “Ricci Maps”

    by Mario Cams, Professor Elke Papelitzky, Dr. Marco Caboara, Fangyi Cheng, Matthew Edney, Lin Hong, Florin-Stefan Morar, Richard A. Pegg, Jeanhyoung Soh0, Nicolas Standaert1, Yongjie Wang2, Yang Yulei3 ...
    When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways. Simultaneously, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Diffused Story of the Footwashing in John 13

    A Textual Study of Bible Reception in Late Imperial China

    by Yanrong Chen ...
    Series Book 7 - Contrapuntal Readings of the Bible in World Christianity
    The first Catholic missionaries of the early modern period arrived in mainland China in 1582, but the first Catholic Bible did not appear until 1968, long after Protestant missionaries already had published several versions. The mystery behind the four-hundred-year gap is not a why question but instead involves many how questions--primarily, how did communication of the Bible take place in the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Erik Zürcher ...
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  • Matteo Ricci

    A Jesuit in the Ming Court

    by Michela Fontana ...
    Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential man, telling a deeply human and captivating story that still resonates today.Michela Fontana traces ... Read more

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    A Portrait of Henri J.M. Nouwen

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    Henri Nouwen, a Dutch Roman Catholic priest, was one of the most beloved and important spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Since his death in 1996, his stature has only increased; and his books, including The Inner Voice of Love, The Wounded Healer, and The Return of the Prodigal Son,have become cherished classics. For thousands of readers around the world, Nouwen’s influence as a teacher ... Read more

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  • Reading To Live

    The Evolving Practice of Lectio Divina

    by Raymond Studzinski OSB ...
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    Matteo Ricci 1552-1610

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    by Alister E. McGrath ...
    Regarded as the leading text in Christian theology for the last 25 years, Alister E. McGrath’s The Christian Theology Reader is now available in a new 5th edition featuring completely revised and updated content.Brings together more than 350 readings from over 200 sources that chart 2,000 years of Christian historySituates each reading within the appropriate historical and theological context with ... Read more

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  • On Friendship

    One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince

    by Matteo Ricci ...
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    "On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."-Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship-the first book to be written in Chinese by a European-that instantly became a late Ming best seller ... Read more

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