Huilin YANG 
China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture [PDF ebook] 

Foreword by David Lyle Jeffrey

Part I: Christianity and Chinese Culture

1 Language and Missionary Universities in China

2 Three Questions in the Dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity

3 Inculturation or Contextualization: Interpretation of Christianity in the Context of Chinese Culture

4 ‘Ethicized’ Chinese-Language Christianity and the Meaning of Christian Ethics

5 The Contemporary Significance of Theological Ethics: The True Problems Elicited by Auschwitz and the Cultural Revolution

Part II: Theology and Humanities

6 The Value of Theology in Humanities: Possible Approaches to Sino-Christian Theology

7 The Potential Value of Contemporary Theology for Literary Theories

8 Six Problem Domains in Western Marxists’ Theory on Religion

9 To Reverse Our Premise with the Perverse Core: A Response to Žižek’s ‘Theology’ in Chinese Context

10 From ‘Difference’ to ’the Other’: A Theological Reading of Heidegger and Derrida

Part III: Scriptural Reasoning 11 James Legge: Between Literature and Religion

12 The Possibilities and Values of ‘Scriptural Reasoning’ between China and the West

13 Scriptural Reasoning and the Hermeneutical Circle

14 The Chinese Union Version of the Bible and Its Hermeneutical Analysis

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Works Cited

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Yang Huilin is Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, and Vice-President of Renmin University of China. He is the author of many works, including Theological Hermeneutics: Word of God & Words of Man, and recently co-editor of Sino-Christian Studies in China (Cambridge, 2006). He resides in Beijing, China.