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Confucianism and Catholicism CONFUCIANISM AND CATHOLICISM Reinvigorating the Dialogue Edited by MICHAEL R. SLATER, ERIN M. CLINE, AND PHILIP J. IVANHOE University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved Copyright © 2020 by the University of Notre Dame Published in the United States of America Library of Congress Control Number: 2020932823 ISBN: 978-0-268-10769-7 (Hardback) ISBN: 978-0-268-10772-7 (WebPDF) ISBN: 978-0-268-10771-0 (Epub) This e-Book was converted from the original source file by a third-party vendor. Readers who notice any formatting, textual, or readability issues are encouraged to contact the publisher at undpress.nd.edu Each person cannot fully complete every task, for which reason the Lord on High commanded that there be friendship in order that we might render aid to one another. If this Way were eradicated from the world, humankind would surely disintegrate into ruin. —Matteo Ricci, On Friendship, maxim 16 (Translation by Timothy Billings, Columbia University Press, 2009) contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Reinvigorating the Dialogue between xi Confucianism and Catholicism Part 1. Historical Contexts: China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan One The Aristotelian Concept of Substance Introduced 3 by Early Jesuit Missionaries to China and Its Problems in Encountering Confucianism Vincent Shen two When Christian Devotion Meets Confucian Piety: 34 The Teaching of the “Three Fatherhoods” in Premodern Vietnam Anh Q. Tran, S.J. three The Zhongyong through a Theistic Lens: Tasan Chŏng 61 Yagyong on How to Be Moral Donald L. Baker four Confucianism and Catholicism in Mid-Twentieth- 84 Century Japan Kevin M. Doak vii viii Contents Part 2. Comparative Theology and Philosophy five Mengzi, Xunzi, Augustine, and John Chrysostom on 109 Childhood Moral Cultivation Xueying Wang six Natural Law in Mencius and Aquinas 135 Richard Kim seven Reimagining Confucianism with Ignatius of Loyola 155 Erin M. Cline eight “Exemplar Reasoning” as a Tool for Constructive 172 Conversation between Confucians and Catholics Victoria S. Harrison nine Understandings of Human Failures to Flourish in 190 Catholicism and Confucianism Lee H. Yearley ten Concluding Reflections: Confucian and Catholic 220 Conceptions of the Virtues Philip J. Ivanhoe Contributors 232 Index 233 Acknowledgments The inspiration for this volume of essays came out of the many fruitful conversations that took place at the International Conference on Con- fucianism and Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dialogue, which was held at Georgetown University on March 4–5, 2016. We would like to thank all of the presenters at that conference, as well as all those who partici- pated in and supported it, for helping to make it such a remarkable suc- cess. We also wish to express our gratitude to our editor at the University of Notre Dame Press, Stephen Little; to two anonymous reviewers who provided helpful feedback on the manuscript; and to Mark Mir and the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco for permission to use the cover image on this book. Finally, we are honored to be able to in- clude one of the last essays published by our esteemed colleague, Vincent Shen, who passed away suddenly while this book was in production. Vincent devoted much of his academic career to bridging intellectual divides—between Western and Chinese philosophy, and between the Christian and Confucian traditions—and was a warm and generous colleague. He will be missed. ix
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