[Cover: Kaifeng Synagogue interior, manuscripts of Jean Domenge, S.J., 1717-1725, Archiv S.J. Prov. Paris.]
Thomas G. Oey 黃美樹: 'Essay on the Term for Diety', a key text of William Jones Boone in his nineteenth-century debate with William Medhurst on the Protestant Chinese term for God.
Roman Malek, SVD 馬雷凱: China im Lexicon für Theologie und Kirche (LThK).
Gail King 歐凱妮: Four editions of Couplet's biography of Madame Candida Xu.

Review article: Visual culture as a historical source: Reed, Marcia & Paola Demattè, eds. China on Paper: European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Standaert, Nicolas. An illustrated Life of Christ presented to the Chinese emperor: the history of the Jincheng shuxiang (1640).

New publications: Mythistory in Sino-Western contacts. Jesuit missionaries and the pillars of the Chinese Catholic religion, by Chen Min-sun. Confucian tradition and global education. The Tang Chun-i Lectures for 2005, by Wm. T. de Bary et al. Chinese and Jews: encounters between cultures, by Irene Eber. Sino-Western relations, conceptions of China, cultural influences and the development of sinology disclosed in Western printed books, 1477-1877, by Björn Löwendahl. The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asian science (1552-1773), Luís Saraiva & Catherine Jamie, eds. The interweaving of rituals: funerals in the cultural exchange between China and Europe, by Nicolas Standaert. Drawing the dragon: Western European reinvention of China, by Tao Zhijian. Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930): Missionar in China und Vermittler chinesischen Geistguts, by Hartmut Walravens.

The fascinating God : a challenge to modern Chinese theology presented by a text on the name of God written by a 17th century Chinese student of theology / Nicolas Standaert.
Originally presented as the author's thesis--Fujen Catholic University.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-[154])

Introduction: 17th century Chinese students of theology--I. Yan Mo and the Ditiankao: Yan Mo's life, writings--Ditiankao: versions, title, date, arrangement of the text--difference between versions A and B--Translation: list of quotations--personal discussion--Analysis: Idea of God in Personal Discussion--Sources: hermeneutical argument--Attributes of God: proofs in Chinese Classics--God and the human being: historical argument--Without beginning, Trinity, Creation: textual approach--Heaven and Master of Heaven: literary approach--Difference between Yan Mo and the Song commentaries. II: On the idea of the Dieties "Heaven" or "Lord" in the Book of Documents, the Book of Odes, The Analects and the Mencius--Methodology: Question of the texts--Heaven and the human being--Book of Documents--Book of Odes--Analects--Mencius--Classics and the Ditiankao--Bibliography.

"In connection with the Rites Controversy towards the end of the seventeenth century, several Chinese literati wrote important essays explaining the issues from a Chinese perspective .... Yan Mo (baptised as Paul, suigong 1709) wrote ... Di Tian kao 帝天考 (Investigation of Lord and Heaven), a discussion of the usage of Tianzhu 天主 (Lord of Heaven) with the terms Tian and Shangdi as found in the Classics such as Shujing and Shijing, as well as the works of Confucius and Mencius..." Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, v.1, p.434.

Indexed (perhaps erroneously) also as Tianzhujiao Rujiao tongyi kao 天主教儒教同異考—cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 433.

本书据1715年抄本排印.
明末淸初耶稣会思想文献汇编 = 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37册.

Local access dig.pdf. in folder: [Andrew Chung Series].

"....Zhang also wrote the Tianjiao mingbian 天教明辯, the manuscript of which (in twenty volumes) is still to be found in the library of the Beitang in Beijing. The preface he wrote for this book is dated 1711 (Kangxi 51). The book was too voluminous and never came to see the light. Instead Zhang Xingyao made an abridgement in three parts, to which he gave the title Tian Ru tongyi kao 天儒同異考 (A study on the difference between Catholicism and Confucianism). The three parts are:

1. The Catholic religion is in harmony with Confucianism.
2. The Catholic religion adds something new to Confucianism.
3. The Catholic religion excels Confucianism.

The preface by the author is dated 1702. The introductory note (bianyan 弁言), however, was written in 1715, when Zhang Xingyao was 83 sui. So we know that Zhang was born in 1633 (Chongzhen 6)."
Source: Albert Chan, SJ, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 53-55.

Full bibliographic details see Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).
Local access dig.pdf. [Zhang-Tian Ru tongyi kao.pdf]