Confucian Questions to Augustine: Is My Cultivation of Self Your Care of the Soul?
Ebook
Overview
In Confucian Questions to Augustine, Park compares the works of Confucius and Mencius with those of Saint Augustine. His purpose in so doing is to show Confucian Augustinianism as a new theological perspective on Confucian-Christian ethics and Augustinianism by discovering analogies and differences in their respective understandings of the formation of moral self, particularly the acquisition of virtue, and how they believe this leads to happiness. Using the method of inter-textual reasoning, and assuming continuity between Augustine’s early and later works, he compares Confucius and Mencius’s xue, si, li, and yue with Augustine’s moral learning, contemplation, sacrament, and music, respectively. Confucian Augustinianism shows how to enjoy God, follow Jesus, and live in the Holy Spirit.
“This is a fascinating work of cross-cultural dialogue between
three of the most influential thinkers in human history—Confucius,
Mencius, and Augustine—which for the first time shows convergences
and divergences in their respective understandings of ethics and
religion.”
—Michael S. Northcott, Emeritus Professor of Ethics, The University
of Edinburgh
“Timely, relevant, and enriching: this rigorous intercultural
engagement in conversation with Confucius, Mencius, and Augustine
around the virtues and formation of the moral self is a brilliant
piece of inquiry in comparative religious ethics.”
—Michael N. Jagessar, Europe Secretary, The Council for World
Mission
“How do people learn to be good? Christianity has its
answers. So does ancient Chinese thought. This fine book compares
those two traditions and builds some important bridges between
them. China has a rich heritage of ethics and wisdom. Christians
who want to understand this heritage better have an important
resource here.”
—John Proctor, General Secretary, The United Reformed
Church
- Title: Confucian Questions to Augustine: Is My Cultivation of Self Your Care of the Soul?
- Author: JunSoo Park
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781532654060, 9781532654046, 9781532654053, 1532654065, 1532654049, 1532654057
- Resource ID: LLS:9781532654060
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T14:47:10Z
The Reverend Dr. JunSoo Park has a PhD from the University of
Edinburgh and now serves as Minister at St Andrew’s United Reformed
Church, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of
Great Britain and Ireland.