ISBN: 1235660087

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235660085], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235660085], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... HARVARD THEOLOGICAL REYIEW Volume I. JULY, 1908. Numbeb 3. THE NATURALIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE FAR EAST EDWARD CALDWELL MOORE Harvard University It is sometimes said that Christianity has been so long identified with the West, it has so thoroughly become a Western religion, that it is not adapted to take a great place in the mind and life of the Eastern nations. It is not intended in this remark to overlook the fact that Christianity is itself by origin an Oriental faith, an outgrowth of Judaism. Nor is it denied that, in considerable numbers, men of Oriental race, mainly within the borders of the present Turkish Empire, have from of old confessed Christianity in forms familiar to us in the Greek churches. But these Oriental Christians sustain rather than disprove the judgment which was above expressed. Not only have they shown since before the rise of Mohammedanism no perceptible zeal for the propagation of the Christian faith among other Orientals, but they have reacted powerfully against the propaganda on behalf of Western forms of the Christian faith in their own midst. What is here meant to be asserted is rather that Christianity, at least as current among those who have been deeply interested in missions, is so largely indebted to Hellenic and Roman and Teutonic culture, so long associated with the civilization of Europe, as to be antipathetic even to the Semitic peoples out of the midst of whom Jesus of Nazareth arose, and totally alien to the remoter Asiatics like the Chinese and Japanese, or even to those who, like the Hindus, share with Europeans at least a common Aryan origin. The Christianity which in fact is offered,-whether by Roman Catholic or Protestant emissaries, to these children of the East in all the pride of their intellectual ..., 5035, World, 15812171, Civilization & Culture, 3825131, Expeditions & Discoveries, 4992, Jewish, 6343224011, Religious, 16244141, Slavery & Emancipation, 15812211, Women in History, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 1235660087

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ISBN: 9781235660085

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