Analysis Of China's First Confucian Christians "fusion" And "reconciliation"

Living in last years of Ming Dynasty, Li Jiubiao and Li Jiugong were one of the primal Confucian-Christians in China. They lived between two different cultures, the thesis will review their lives and the seven Christian literatures they wrote. Their treatises about Christology and Holy Love, and their thought about the Chinese traditional Classical Confucian texts and philosophers, showed their syncretize to the Confucian learning and the Christians theology. At the beginning of Chinese rites controversy, they defended the Chinese traditional Rites such as the Rites of Honoring Ancestors, the ceremony for Confucius and the Ceremony of Worshipping Heaven, which showed their mediate to the Chinese rites and Christian canons. Their literatures showed the primal localize to Christianism. We would try to prove that the way they absorbed the different culture is the absolutely Chinese way called The Doctrine of the Mean.