Dictionary of asian christianity vs catholicism

This superb dictionary is the first basic reference work for the study of Asian Christianity in the past and at present..

The full sweep of Christianity is explored, including its consequential encounters with Asian political movements, cultural practices, and indigenous religions.

Dictionary of Asian Christianity, edited by Scott Sunquist and David Wu. Chu Catholicism and Protestantism are seen as different religions.

This superb dictionary is the first basic reference work for the study of Asian Christianity in the past and at present.

Seeks to document and preserve the history of Christianity in Asia through both biographies and church histories.

Zhejiang Li was one of the Chinese officials who willingly learned European astronomy, geography, mathematics, and Catholic doctrines from Matteo Ricci.

A Dictionary of Asian Christianity.

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Edited by Scott W. Sunquist, David Wu Chu Sing, and John Chew Hiang Chea. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001.

xliv + 937 pp. $75.00 cloth.

Editor Scott Sunquist and associate editors David Wu Chu Sing and John Chew Hiang Chea are to be lauded for their efforts in putting together this dictionary over the course of ten years.

Asian Christian Theology provides a survey of contextually reflective, robustly evangelical theology for students to engage with the core doctrines of.

More than 1200 entries provided by over 400 contributors from South, East, and Southeast Asia give the reader a plethora of detail from a great variety of national, ethnic, and ecclesial perspectives. The dictionary was born "out of two senses of frustration" (xxi): the first arising from professors of church history in Asia who had few resources for their teaching, and the second from the national, political, and linguistic barriers that prevented scholars from seeing the ecumenicity of the Christian faith.

In 1990 the three editors, then all members of the faculty of Trinity