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"A history of Jingjiao, the first Christian church in China, covering its planting, flourishing, and rediscovery"-- "A balanced, accessible, and thorough history of Jingjiao, the first Christian church in China. Many people assume that the first introduction of Christianity to the Chinese was part of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. In fact, Syriac-speaking Christians brought the gospel along the Silk Road into China in the seventh century. Glen L. Thompson introduces readers to the fascinating history of this early Eastern church, referred to as Jingjiao, or the "Luminous Teaching." Thompson presents the history of the Persian church's mission to China with rigor and clarity. While Christianity remained a minority and "foreign" religion in the Middle Kingdom, it nonetheless attracted adherents among indigenous Chinese and received imperial approval during the Tang Dynasty. Though it was later suppressed alongside Buddhism, it resurfaced in China and Mongolia in the twelfth century. Thompson also discusses how the modern unearthing of Chinese Christian texts has stirred controversy over the meaning of Jingjiao to recent missionary efforts in China. In an accessible style, Thompson guides readers through primary sources as well as up-to-date scholarship. As the most recent and balanced survey on the topic available in English, Jingjiao will be an indispensable resource to students of global Christianity and missiology"--

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A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the pre-modern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Monument c. 1623. This initial discovery was dismissed as a "Jesuit forgery" by Voltaire, Edward Gibbon and many other scholars of the Enlightenment. However, its authenticity has been more than vindicated by the discovery of genuine (Nestorian / Jingjiao) Christian texts in Chinese from Dunhuang and in Syriac, Sogdian and Old Turkish from Turfan (Bulayïq) at the beginning of the last century. The discovery of a second major inscription which included part of a Chinese Christian (Jingjiao) text already known to scholars from Dunhuang, and the recent re-discovery of several Dunhuang Christian texts in a Japanese library, has removed any lingering doubts about the authenticity of the texts recovered from Dunhuang. The surviving material spans almost a millennium from the introduction of Christianity along the Silk Road in the sixth and seventh centuries through the Mongol period and beyond

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Dieser Band erinnert an den 65. Geburtstag von William Vernon Harris (13. September 2003), als eine Gruppe seiner früheren Studenten übereinkam, ihn mit der Herausgabe einer Sammlung von Essays zu ehren, die das breite Spektrum der Interessengebiete und Einflüsse ihres Ratgebers repräsentieren sollten. Die 15 Beiträge rangieren nun chronologisch von der ersten Olympiade bis in die Spätantike und diskutieren verschiedenste Fragen der Weltmachtpolitik, des Rechts, der Wirtschaft und Religion der antiken mediterranen Welt. Gemeinsamer Nenner aller Essays ist die soziale und historische Perspektive, aus der heraus sie viele gängige Ansichten über die Geschichte der Antike in Fragen stellen. Die Autoren der Beiträge sehen sich alle in der Schuld des formenden wissenschaftlichen Scharfsinns ihres Mentors William V. Harris, zusätzlich zu der nicht geringen Anforderung, sich mit seiner Arbeit auseinanderzusetzen. This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would represent the wide variety of interests and influences of our advisor and friend. The fifteen papers in fact range chronologically from the first Olympics to late antiquity and discuss various questions of imperialism, law, economy, and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world. The essays share a social historical perspective from which they challenge as many commonly accepted notions in ancient history. The contributors acknowledge their intellectual debt to the formative scholarly acumen of William V. Harris, which adds up to the "tall order" of engaging with his work.

Rome --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Mythology, Roman. --- Social conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- Roman mythology