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The missionary efforts and other work of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, between the 16th and 17th century played a significant role in continuing the transmission of knowledge, science, and culture between China and the West, and influenced Christian culture in Chinese society today. The first attempt by the Jesuits to reach China was made ...
May 22, 2023 · Science was perhaps the most powerful weapon in the Jesuits’ intellectual arsenal — even more so than religion! Chinese elites loved their guests’ mathematical work and astronomical predictions. European and Chinese collaborators translated works such as Euclid’s Elements into Mandarin Chinese. After 1601, Matteo Ricci was even allowed ...
The Spanish Jesuit Francis Xavier, who had toiled on the mission field in India and Japan, was one of the first Jesuits to set foot on Chinese soil in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). In 1552, overcome by illness and the logistical nightmare of crossing into China, the famed Jesuit died without seeing his dream of a mission realized.
Dec 14, 2012 · In fact, the Jesuits were the third act in Chinese Christian history. The first Christian missionaries to what is today China had come as early as the 7th century. They were the so-called Nestorians, from the Church of the East. The second group was the Franciscans who came to China some 400 years later.
Dec 1, 2015 · The Jesuit order was vehemently spreading the gospel since it was founded, and China was a major target. After 1601, many Jesuits had arrived in China and their learned reports to their headquarters accumulated rapidly. The Jesuits adapted to the Chinese scholar-officials called Mandarins and their Confucian theories, leading to a conflict with the French church, the Pope, and the Chinese ...
Feb 3, 2014 · What was the understanding of Chinese religions developed by Jesuits, and how did such understanding impact modern understanding of religion, both in the West and in China? How did Jesuits react to the events and debates that reconfigured the religious space in modern and contemporary China?
K. S. Latourette; Missionary and Mandarin: The Jesuits at the Court of China. By Arnold H. Rowbotham. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California P
