"...Shang Huqing 尚祜卿 (ca. 1619; jr. 1639) [a Catholic convert--ed.] ... helped Caballero in compiling Tian Ru yin (Christianity and Confucianism Compared, ca. 1664), in which quotations from the Four Books were interpreted in a Christian context."--Cf. N. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 430.
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明末清初耶穌會思想文獻匯編 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第15冊.
OCLC record uses: Antonio, de Santa María, padre, 1602-1669. [not under authority control]

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The Latin inscription on the cover reads: “Cohaerentiae doctrinae | litterarorum sinensium | cum doctrina christiana | a p. Antonio a S. | María, franciscano.”

This book gives a selection of ideas in the Four Books that are close to Catholic ideas and commentaries on them. The author interprets the character Tian as the Lord of Heaven, Tianzhu 天主.

Antonio de Santa María Caballero was born in Baltaná, Spain, 1602. He joined the order of St. Francis in 1618, was ordained in 1626 and entered China from Manila in 1633. He worked in Fujian and Jiangnan, but was later forced to return to Manila. In 1643 he was appointed prefect apostolic in China, where he worked in Jinan (Shandong). In 1665 he was banished to Guangzhou where he died in 1669. Cf. SF, vol. II; Rosso, pp. 104–122; JWC 2:108–113; DMB 1:24–31.
Wei Xuequ 魏學渠 (zi 子存, hao 青城) was a native of Jiashan 嘉善 (Zhejiang). He obtained his juren degree during the Shunzhi period (1644–1661) and became Circuit Intendant (daotai 道臺). He was known as poet, essayist, and calligrapher.
Shang Huqing (zi 天民, 識己, hao 韋堂) was a native of Shanyang 山陽 (Jiangsu). He obtained his juren degree in 1639 and became magistrate of Wei Xian 濰縣 (Shandong) in 1659, but was dismissed within less than a year. He took up his residence in Jinan, where he met Caballero and became a Christian. In his preface to the Tian Ru yin, he says that he has been a Christian for a number of years and that for some time has been studying the teaching of the Catholic church under the guidance of Caballero and Jean Valat, a Jesuit missioner in Shandong. His assiduous efforts gave him confidence to say that, though he is not an expert, he is more than a beginner. Finally, he mentions two books, the Bu-Ru wen’gao 補儒文告 and the Zhengxue liushi 正學鏐石 (cf. Jap-Sin I, 134), which he says are ready for the press. Cf. JWC 2:110–113.
Hsü Tsung-tse (1949, pp. 130–131) reproduces the postscript to Tian Ru yin by the son of Shang Huqing, who clearly attributes the authorship of this book to his father (cf. also the biography of Shang Huqing by Wang Chongmin 王重民 in Tushu jikan 圖書季刊, new ed., vol. 5, no. 1). Also according to Francesco Saverio Filippucci in his Sagitta retorta of 1687 (ms. in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Rome, F.G. 1247, 8, f. 5v), quoted by Hubert Verhaeren (“Notes bibliographiques” in Le Bulletin Catholique de Pékin, 30, 1943, pp. 183–190), Shang Huqing, who appears in the text as reviser, is the author of this book; cf. SF 81:292 n. 51 and 71:257 n. 46.

Cf. Jap-Sin I, 151 (same edition, with a frontispiece)
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 169-170.