Balthasar in light of early Confucianism / Joshua R. Brown

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-296) and index.

Introduction -- The Conceptual structure and xontext of Xiao in early Confucianism -- "While Living, Serve Them with Li" : Xiao as care for parents -- Serve the dead with Li : filial love and obedience in Ceremonial Xiao -- The spiritual xontext and structure of Christological love and obedience for Hans Urs von Balthasar -- Archetypal obedience : Balthasar's conception of Christ's filial obedience as archetypal experience -- Mission, history, and bbedience : Christ's filial obedience in theo-drama -- A Confucian rereading of Balthasar.

"In this unique and original study, Joshua Brown seeks to demonstrate the fruitfulness of Chinese philosophy for Christian theology by using Confucianism to reread, reassess, and ultimately expand the Christology of the twentieth-century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Taking up the critically important Confucian idea of xiao (filial piety), Brown argues that this concept can be used to engage anew Balthasar's treatment of the doctrine of Christ's filial obedience, thus leading us to new Christological insights. To this end, Brown first offers in-depth studies of the early Confucian idea of xiao and of Balthasar's Christology on their own terms and in their own contexts. The author then proposes that Confucianism affirms certain aspects of Balthasar's insights into Christ's filial obedience. Brown also shows how the Confucian understanding of xiao provides reasons to criticize some of Balthasar's controversial claims, such as his account of intra-Trinitarian obedience. Ultimately, by rereading Balthasar's Christology through the lens of xiao, this work employs Confucian and Balthasarian resources to push the Christological conversation forward. This book is written for students and scholars of systematic theology, theologically educated readers interested in the encounter between Christianity and Chinese culture, and comparative theologians"-- Provided by publisher

Essays by Aloysius Chang Ch'un-shen, Madeleine Kwong Lai-kuen, Gianni Criveller, Eugenio Menegon, Mark Fang Chih-jung, Yves Raguin, Louis Gendron, Benoit Vermander, Wang Hsien-chih, Liu Xiaofeng, Li Jinyuan.

Fu Da shenxue zuobian yihui congshu 輔大神學作編譯會叢書 ; 之 9

眞道自證 Chin taóu tsze chíng. Proofs of Truth. .....details the evidences of Christianity, by way of dialogues between two friends. The first….treats of the Creator; the second is on Mankind; third is on Jesus the Saviour; fourth is on Man’s position in the world. Author’s signature is Shen tĭh. Cf. Wylie, Memorials, p.59, no.24.

正教安慰 Chíng keaóu gan wei. "Consolations of religion….in 4 books, the 1st of which contains a summary of the life, sufferings, condemnation, death, resurrection and ascension of our Lord, in nine sections; the 2nd book elaborates the successive discourses of the Saviour; the 3rd enters into detail regarding the various events in the life of Jesus; and the 4th relates His resurrection, several appearances, ascension to heaven, sending the Holy Spirit, with power to work miracles, conversion of men, and glory of Christ.” Cf. Wylie, Memorials, p. 57, no.8.