The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785

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D. E. Mungello

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In the spring of 1738, Fr. Bernardino Bevilacqua was hustled out of Shandong to the quiet uproar over his sexual seduction of young Chinese converts. Fr, Alessio Randanini followed him to Macau in 1741. Among Christians living in Shandong and southern Zhili provinces during the years 1650-1785, the spirit and the flesh lived in constant tension as the aspirations of the spirit (faith, hope, love, devotion, mercy and piety) contended with the passions of the flesh (hatred, jealousy, lust and pride). This book tells the human story of the introduction of Christianity to a provincial region in China where European missionaries shared the poverty and isolation of their Chinese flocks. Their close personal relationships led to intellectual and pastoral collaboration, suppression, an underground church, imprisonment, apostasy and martyrdom ans well as peasant secret society affiliations, self-flagellation and sexual seduction. In the remote villages of this region, the missionaries and their converts lived out their pious aspirations and eternal damnations under the darkening sky of growing anti-Christian policies from the capital.

Author Biography:

D. E. Mungello is professor of history and director of Asian studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is the author of The Great Encounter of China and the West.

Release date NZ

March 21st, 2001

Author

D. E. Mungello

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

224

Dimensions

148x228x12

ISBN-13

9780742511644

Product ID

7575188

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