Introduction / Vincent Shen -- Kenotic theology : a perspective from 'regress' theory traced in the thought of Chiara Lubich and Meister Eckhart / Chan Tak-Kwong -- Kenosis, transcendence and body : comparing Christian mysticism and Chinese spirituality / Vincent Shen -- Logos and Tao : the Johannine Jesus and a Taoist sage / Joseph H. Wong, OSB CAM -- Humility and humiliation-kenotic experience in modern Chinese painting, and in the historical experience of Chinese Christians / Benoît Vermander SJ -- Christ's kenosis in Christianity from a perspective of Sunyata in Chan Buddhism : explanation and addition to Masao Abe -- Guo Sheng-Ping -- Theory and practice of ethics of generosity in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism / Vincent Shen -- Religious communities in contemporary Shanghai and the tasks of East Asian theology / Benoit Vermander SJ -- Bring Christ to all cultures on Earth and bring all cultures to Christ : spreading the spirit of Fu Jen Catholic University / Bernard Li -- The Catholic Church on freedom of religion / Thomas Yang.

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Text/Translation begins on p. [39]: Commento e immagini dell Incarnazione del Signore del Cielo = 天主降生出像經解 Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie. Traduzione e note di Lu Huizhong e Huang Xiu Feng. "con riproduzione anastatica del testo conservato presso AFIO (Archivo Franciscano Ibero Orientale) di Madrid 26/2".

Indice: Presentazione / Antonio Fappani. Verso la pienezza de verità e amore / Luciano Monari. Prefazione / Pier Francesco Fumagalli. Avvertenze e ringraziamenti. Introduzione / Gianfranco Cretti. Giulio Aleni e la Prospettiva in Cina / Hui-Hung Chen. Prefazione / Giulio Aleni. Mappa di Gerusalemme / Giulio Aleni. Sante Immagini della Incarnazione del Signore del Cielo / Giulio Aleni. Indice delle Immagini. Indice dei nomi di luoghi e persone. Nota bibliografica.

"[Tianzhu jiangsheng yanxing jilüe 天主降生言行紀略] supplemented by his Tianzhu jiangsheng yanxing jingjie (1637). This work of fifty-five pictures of Jesus’ life was based on Jerónimo Nadal’s (1507-1580) Evangelicae Historiae Imaginese (Antwerp, 1593), which was often included in Nadal’s Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangeliae (Antwerp, 1595), a meditative commentary on the Sunday readings by a famous companion of Ignatius of Loyola. Aleni’s work, however, is not a translation of Nadal’s commentary, but a Chinese adaptation of Vita Christi by Ludophus de Saxonia (ca. 1300-1378). His Vita Christi e Quatuor Evangeliis et Scriptoribus Orthodoxis Concinnata was a very popular writing during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.....In this they [Jesuits] gave preference to a chronological presentation of Jesus’ life rather than to the translation of the four gospels..." Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 622-623.

"....By this extensive sinicisation da Rocha’s picture show an interesting contrast with the second collection of Christian wood-block prints: the 55 pictures – all based on Nadal - in Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie天主降生出像經解 (Illustrated Explanation of the Lord of Heaven’s Incarnation), first published in 1637 in Jinjiang (Quanzhou) by Giulio Aleni.....The difference in style is quite marked: in Aleni’s xylographs the European linear perspective and the narrative combination ...... have been maintained. There are interesting Chinese adaptations as regards form... and content....but as a whole these woodblock prints render the Western originals faithfully." Cf. Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 813.

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The title is given in the centre of the title page. On the right there is the name of the author and on the left that of the publisher: Lingbaotang (Church of the Annunciation). The verso of this folio gives the names of the censors: Fei Qigui 費奇規 (Gaspar Ferreira), Yang Manuo 陽瑪諾 (Manuel Dias Jr.), and Fei Lede 費樂德 (Rui de Figueiredo). The proofreaders were Zhang Geng 張賡 of Wenling 溫陵 (Fujian) and Ye Yifan 葉益蕃 of Futang 福唐 (Fujian). This is a reprint made by the Catholic Church in Beijing in 1694 (Kangxi 33).
There is a preface (two and one-half folios) by Su Maoxiang 蘇茂相 and another (three and one-half folios) by Huang Jingfang 黃景昉. The middle of each folio bears the title and the number of each folio is given below. The main text consists of thirty folios, the last of which contains a poem given to Aleni by Ye Xianggao 葉向高 (1562–1627), former Grand Secretary under the Wanli emperor.
The book was written as a result of Aleni’s visit to Ye Xianggao in Sanshan (Fujian) in 1627 (Tianqi 7). There Aleni met the renowned scholar and government official Cao Xuequan 曹學佺 (1574–1646). Their conversation centred on the creation of the universe, the remuneration of the good and the punishment of the wicked, and the problems of the Incarnation and Redemption. The discussion was later recalled by Aleni and published. The title is sometimes rendered with ji 記 instead of ji 紀.

Cf. Courant 7120, 7121, 7122 I (copies of the 1694 reprint).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 125.

JapSin I, 73.b
Sanshan lunxue ji 三山論學紀.
By Ai Rulüe 艾儒略 (Giulio Aleni).
One juan. Bamboo paper in one volume.
Reprint by the Catholic Church of Fuzhou (Fujian). No date of publication.

The cover of the book bears a label: Ke Sanshan lunxueji 刻三山論學紀. The Latin inscription reads: “Dialogi de rebus | fidei inter p. Julius Aleni, S.J. | et doctorem Sinam.”

Cf. Courant 7122 II (Min-chung T’ien-chu t’ang ch’ung-k’o); Pfister, p. 133; Hsü 1949, pp. 152–153; BR, p. XXXIII; Couplet, p. 16; JWC 1:194.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 125-126.

"...explaining the Incarnation, deals at length with its being announced by the Old Testament prophets, but this highly scholastic work did not circulate widely." (Cf. Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 622, yinyi transposed to yiyin)

據法國巴黎尚蒂宜耶穌會圖書館藏本排印. Cover illustration: Bibliothèque des Fontaines edition.
Series: 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11冊 .

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