Jesuit and Friar in the Spanish expansion to the East / J.S. Cummins.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents: I. Christopher Columbus: crusader, visionary, and Servus Dei -- II.The Dominican Mission in Japan (1602-1622) and Lope de Vega -- III. Palafox, China, and the Chinese Rites Controversy -- IV. Labour in the colonial Philippines: The Discurso Parenético -- V. Two missionary methods in China: mendicants and Jesuits -- VI. Fray Domingo Navarrete: a source for Quesnay -- VII. The present location of the Pei-t’ang Library.

Variorum reprints. Collected Studies ; CS237

"Spanish Dominican Fernández de Navarrete and the Chinese rites controversy" / Zhang Baobao

This article belongs to the Special Issue

"Chinese Christianity: From Society to Culture," Religions 16

Abstract: 

Spanish Dominican Fernández de Navarrete played a pivotal role in the Chinese Rites Controversy. Not only did he bring the controversial manuscript by Nicolò Longobardi to wider attention, thereby intensifying the debate over Chinese rituals, but he also further interpreted and reinforced its contents, amplifying the manuscript’s influence. This, in turn, attracted both internal and external forces within the Church to challenging the Jesuits. In addressing the issue of Chinese rituals, Fernández de Navarrete relied on Thomas Aquinas’ theological framework to evaluate Confucian practices, categorizing the act of offering sacrifices to ancestors and to Confucius as idolatrous. He subsequently demanded that believers refrain from participating in Chinese ritual practices.

The travels and controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete, 1618-1686 / edited from manuscript and printed sources by J.S. Cummins.
Consists chiefly of a translation of the 6th book of the author's Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos y religiosos de a monarchia de China.
Bibliography: p. 439-450.

Local access dig.pdf. (vol. 2 only): [Cummins-Travels of Domingo Navarette v.2.pdf]