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213 notes Chapter One 1 ZHANG Kaiyuan, “General Introduction to the Book Series: Studies on the History of Missionary Universities in China.” This is a set of books written or translated by Chinese scholars on the history of early missionary universities in China. More than ten books were published between 1999 and 2005 by Zhuhai Press. 2 XU Yihua, Jiao yu yu zong jiao [St. John’s University as an Evangelical Medium] (Zhuhai: Zhuhai Press, 1999). 3 Werner G. Jeanrond, Theological Hermeneutics: Development and Significance (London : Macmillan, 1991), 154. 4 Hunter Corbett, Cheeloo University, trans. TAO Feiya et al. (Zhuhai: Zhuhai Press, 1999), 30. 5 Corbett, Cheeloo University, 63. 6 Corbett, Cheeloo University, 29. 7 WANG Zhongxin, Jidu jiao yu zhongguo jin xian dai jiao yu [基督教与中国近现代 教育, Christianity and Modern Education in China] (Wuhan: Hubei Education Press, 2000), 24. 8 Corbett, Cheeloo University, 15. 9 Corbett, Cheeloo University, 81–82. 10 Corbett, Cheeloo University, 76. 11 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 6. 12 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 35. 13 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 26. 14 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 28–29. 15 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 28. 214 Notes to pp. 6–10 16 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 28. 17 Corbett, Cheeloo University, 72. 18 Corbett, Cheeloo University, 77. 19 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 33–35. 20 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 33–35. 21 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 34. 22 This is a saying of Mr. QIAN Jibo, father of famous Chinese writer and scholar QIAN Zhongshu. See XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 122–23. 23 XU, Jiao yu yu zong jiao, 35. 24 John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University, 9th ed. (London: Longmans, Green, 1889), ix (emphasis original). 25 WU Xiaolong, Xi jie de jing shi [细节的警示, The Message of Details] (Shanghai: SDX Joint Publishing, 2004), 114–15. This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Dr. WU Xiaolong, an unknown but brilliant scholar, who died of brain cancer at the age of fifty-one on November 1, 2006. He was the author of a series of dissertations on the relations between modern China and the Christian church. This chapter is an addition to what he wrote on that subject. Chapter Two 1 For a relevant discussion, see chap. 4. 2 ZHAO Weiben, Yi jing su yuan: xian dai wu da zhong wen sheng jing fan yi shi [译经溯源: 现代五大中文圣经翻译史, Seeking the Origins of Translated Bibles: Translation History of Today’s Five Major Chinese-Language Bibles] (Hong Kong: China Graduate School of Theology, 1993), 165, and annotated by WENG Shaojun , Han yu jing jiao wen dian quan shi [汉语景教文典诠释, Explanatory Notes to the Chinese-Language Nestorian Scriptures] (Hong Kong: Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, 1995), 37–38. 3 WENG, Han yu jing jiao wen dian quan shi, 136. 4 Studies indicate that Xu ting (序听) is a misprint of Xu cong, or “Jesus,” and mi shi suo (迷失所) should be mi shi a, or “Messiah”; thus, Xu ting mi shi shuo (a) jing is actually “Bible of Jesus Christ” (WENG, Han yu jing jiao wen dian quan shi, 83). 5 The direct translation of the title of this mission is “Christian Mission for Propagating Religion to Buddhists,” later renamed “Areopagus Mission.” According to Acts 17:19-32, Areopagus was the place where Paul began to disseminate the Christian religion to people in other countries. 6 The couplet at the Chapel of Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre can be translated as follows: “Tao (the Way) is with God, and Fong (the wind) blows at which the meaning flows.” The name of the center is inscribed in this couplet. 7 For instance, today’s Pope maintains, “The ‘sudden enlightenment’ experienced by Buddha may be summed up as a complete realization that the world is evil . . . and so-called Nirvana is a state of complete indifference to the world.” However, “where Christianity is concerned, there is no significance in describing the world as a sort of ‘fundamental’ evil,” because “the world was given to us by the Creator, and constitutes a mission He has conferred upon human beings” (see Pope John Paul II, Cross the Threshold of Hope [Taipei: Li Hsu Cultural Causes, 1995], 114– 17). Although the pope’s criticism of Buddhism is quite mild, it is highly doubtful whether Buddhist circles would agree that their “sudden enlightenment” is “a [3.209.81.51] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 07:14 GMT) Notes to pp. 10–16 215...