Science, Religion(s), and Spirit(s) in China

A Constructive Chinese Theology of Creation Based on Jingjiao's Qi-Tological Theology
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74956-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Theology and Mission in World Christianity

What happens when the earliest Christian missionaries to China encounter advanced Tang science, Daoism, and the power of qi? This groundbreaking book takes you inside the lost world of Jingjiao—the Luminous Teaching/Religion—uncovering how these East Syriac missionaries expressed the Holy Spirit through Chinese metaphors of breath and wind. With a fresh English translation of the full Tang Jingjiao corpus—some never before translated with such nuance—you explore a rich constructive theology of creation shaped by interreligious dialogue and scientific insight. Blending theology, Daoism, and Quantum Field Theory, the book introduces Embodied Critical Realism as a bold new method for theology-science-religion trialogue. Read it—and rethink Chinese theology for the third millennium.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feng, Jacob Chengwei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob Chengwei Feng, Ph.D. (2024), Fuller Theological Seminary, is Postdoctoral Scholar at that seminary. He has published dozens of articles on theology, with forthcoming book Spirit(s) and Chinese Religiosity: Retelling the History of Chinese Christianity from a Pentecost Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan).