Journey to the East : the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 /
It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This & ldquo;journey to the East & rdquo; is explored by Liam Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Por...
| Основен автор: | Brockey, Liam Matthew. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Journey to the East. |
Съдържание:
- Preface
- Note on translations and orthography
- Introduction
- PART I. CHARTING THE COURSE.
- An uneasy foothold
- In the shadow of greatness
- Witnesses to armageddon
- The problem of success
- Between tolerance and the intolerable
- PART II. BUILDING THE CHURCH.
- In the apostles' classroom
- Learning the language of birds
- The business of conversion
- A good method and order
- Brothers of passion and mercy
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic note
- Notes
- Illustration credits
- Index.