China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture

Contents

v Contents Foreword by David Lyle Jeffrey vii Part I: Christianity and Chinese Culture 1 Language and Missionary Universities in China 3 2 Three Questions in the Dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity 9 3 Inculturation or Contextualization: Interpretation of Christianity in the Context of Chinese Culture 25 4 “Ethicized” Chinese-Language Christianity and the Meaning of Christian Ethics 47 5 The Contemporary Significance of Theological Ethics: The True Problems Elicited by Auschwitz and the Cultural Revolution 61 Part II: Theology and Humanities 6 The Value of Theology in Humanities: Possible Approaches to Sino-Christian Theology 79 vi Contents 7 The Potential Value of Contemporary Theology for Literary Theories 99 8 Six Problem Domains in Western Marxists’ Theory on Religion 113 9 To Reverse Our Premise with the Perverse Core: A Response to Žižek’s “Theology” in Chinese Context 123 10 From “Difference” to “the Other”: A Theological Reading of Heidegger and Derrida 137 Part III: Scriptural Reasoning 11 James Legge: Between Literature and Religion 153 12 The Possibilities and Values of “Scriptural Reasoning” between China and the West 163 13 Scriptural Reasoning and the Hermeneutical Circle 185 14 The Chinese Union Version of the Bible and Its Hermeneutical Analysis 199 Notes 213 Works Cited 249 Details of Previous Publications 263 ...