Download or read book Sino Vatican Relations written by Ambrose Mong and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in Christianity in China, the state-church relationship, and the present Communist regime and its attitude towards religion, Sino-Vatican Relations offers a wealth of information and insights. This work traces the tortuous history of the relationship between the Chinese government and the Roman Catholic Church, from denunciation of Communism by the Church, to seeking dialogue by recent pontiffs such as John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. Besides examining the religious policy of China since 1949 and how the Chinese government deals with religious revivals, this work also traces the history of the church regarding the appointment of bishops in Europe from its early days to modern times. Monarchies in Europe have always been involved in the appointment of bishops. Thus, the recent agreement between Pope Francis and the Chinese authorities regarding the appointment of bishops has historical precedents. The overall aim of this work is to help readers to get the right information needed to have a well-informed opinion on the complex matter of the Sino-Vatican Relations, particularly on the agreement signed by Pope Francis with Beijing in 2018.
Download or read book Sino Vatican Relations written by Beatrice Leung and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the contemporary claims of communism and national culture be reconciled with a universal religion? How can the government of the People's Republic of China with its claim to absolute sovereignty exist alongside the spiritual authority of the Roman Catholic church? This conflict between two centres of authority has been at the core of recent relations between the Catholic church and China. In this first book-length study of the subject, Dr. Beatrice Leung analyses the interactions between China and the Holy See from 1976 to 1986. Dr. Leung examines the historic relationship between the Catholic church and China both prior to 1949 and from 1949 to 1976. She then analyses the major problems between these two institutions as they tried to establish a dialogue for future reconciliation. These include the need for the Vatican to transfer its recognition of China from Taipei to Beijing; the role of the Pope with his spiritual leadership of Chinese Catholics; and the handling of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. The book concludes with suggestions for a basis for church-state rapprochement. Throughout her work, Dr. Leung uses Chinese language sources, both on the Catholic and Communist sides. These are supplemented by a wide range of interviews which the author has conducted in the Vatican, in Hong Kong and with members of the official and unofficial Catholic churches inside China itself.
Download or read book Sino Vatican Diplomatic Relations written by Alexandre Tsung-ming Chen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People Communities and the Catholic Church in China written by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Chinese Catholic Church as a whole as well as focusing on particular aspects of its activities, including diplomacy, politics, leadership, pilgrimage, youths, and non-Chinese Catholics in China. It discusses Sino-Vatican relations and the rationale behind the decisions taken by Pope Francis with regard to the appointment of bishops in China. The book also examines important changes and personalities in the Chinese Church, the Catholic organizations, and the Catholic communities in the Church, offering a key read for researchers and graduate students studying the Chinese Catholic Church, the Church in Asia, and religion in contemporary China.
Download or read book Sino Vatican Relations written by Ambrose Mong and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in Christianity in China, the state-church relationship, and the present Communist regime and its attitude towards religion, Sino-Vatican Relations offers a wealth of information and insights. This work traces the tortuous history of the relationship between the Chinese government and the Roman Catholic Church, from denunciation of Communism by the Church, to seeking dialogue by recent pontiffs such as John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. Besides examining the religious policy of China since 1949 and how the Chinese government deals with religious revivals, this work also traces the history of the church regarding the appointment of bishops in Europe from its early days to modern times. Monarchies in Europe have always been involved in the appointment of bishops. Thus, the recent agreement between Pope Francis and the Chinese authorities regarding the appointment of bishops has historical precedents. The overall aim of this work is to help readers to get the right information needed to have a well-informed opinion on the complex matter of the Sino-Vatican Relations, particularly on the agreement signed by Pope Francis with Beijing in 2018.
Download or read book Is the Vatican China bishops deal working written by UCA News Series and published by ucanews. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vatican-China agreement on the appointment of bishops has received mixed responses from Catholics around the world. The agreement, signed in 2018 and renewed in 2020 for another two years, allows the Vatican to have a say in the appointment of bishops while giving Chinese authorities more control over the country’s underground churches. Chinese Catholics remain split over the deal despite the Vatican’s hopes that an agreement with China’s communist regime would help reconcile members of the officially recognized and underground church communities. The essays in this volume give a detailed account of the Vatican-China deal. They provide an outline of the agreement, the significance of the deal, Catholics’ responses and the deal’s current status.
Download or read book A Discourse Analysis of Sino Vatican Relations 1949 1958 written by Yongjia Fu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of this thesis is why the Vatican and China severed diplomatic ties in the 1950s to the extent that over 60 years later they still have not reached a rapprochement. In previous literature, this long-term stalemate was often regarded as the result of 'incompatible identities' (communism versus theism) between the PRC and the Vatican. However, this thesis argues that this rigid view of identity has led to a highly oversimplified and biased understanding of Sino-Vatican relations - the agency of Beijing and Rome in Sino-Vatican interactions was ignored. To get a deeper insight into the current stalemate in Sino-Vatican relations, we must return to the early period (1949-1958) in Beijing and Rome's history of interaction and discuss why the stalemate was formed in the first place. In order to do so, this thesis covers major 'flashpoints' in Sino-Vatican relations from 1949-1958 and analyses the key texts from both Beijing and ; Rome. Borrowing from Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, the dialogue between China and the Vatican will be regarded as the two states' efforts to claim and fix the meanings of certain key signifiers in their discourse by forming 'chains of equivalence'. This thesis uses a considerable amount of de-classified archival material on the Chinese side that has never been revealed before, which provides rich evidence to support a new interpretation of Sino-Vatican relations. The thesis concludes that the stalemate in Sino-Vatican relations can be attributed to Beijing and Rome's mutual misunderstanding of each other's key signifiers. The original contribution of this case study to IR theory and discourse theory is an analysis of how key signifiers in a state's discourse matter and can cause serious misunderstandings. To avoid this kind of impasse, it is essential to precisely analyse the meaning of key ideological signifiers in state interactions and diplomacy.
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Download or read book Catholicism in China 1900 Present written by C. Chu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the Chinese Catholic Church. The chapters in this book covering the church from 1900 to the present trace the development of the Church in China from many historical and disciplinary vantage points.
Download or read book A Collection of Documents on the History of the 60 Years of Sino Vatican Diplomatic Relations written by Institute of Catholic History and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catholic Invasion of China written by D. E. Mungello and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of D. E. Mungello’s forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of poverty, powerlessness, and humiliation, the attitudes of Catholic missionaries became less accommodating than their famous Jesuit predecessors. He argues that “invasion” accurately characterizes the dominant attitude of Catholic missionaries (especially the French Jesuits) in their attempt to introduce Western religion and culture into China during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Elements of this attitude lingered until the end of the last century, when many Chinese felt that Pope John Paul II’s canonization of 120 martyrs reflected the imposition of an imperialist mentality. In this important work, Mungello corrects a major misreading of modern Chinese history by arguing that the growth of an indigenous Catholic church in the twentieth century transformed the negative aspects of the “invasion” into a positive Chinese religious force.
Download or read book A history of Vatican diplomatic relations with China written by Stanislao Lokuang and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sino Vatican Conflict from 1949 to Today written by Kevin Chan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis will discuss the conflict between Communist China and the Holy See from 1949 until today. It will start with background information on both sides (the Chinese Communist party and the Catholic Church in China) before 1949, listing out their strengths and weaknesses, as well as why they were so opposed to each other due to the influence of Karl Marx's hostility to religion on the CCP and the opposition of the Catholic Church to Communism through the statements and actions of the Popes. The main part of the thesis will address the conflict itself, which started with the CCP's attempt to take of the the Chinese Catholic Church in the 1950s through the formation of the state controlled Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association where Bishops were nominated by the regime. This met with the strong resistance of Pope Pius XII in to encyclicals, and this and other similar issues continued into the recent back and forth reconciliations and conflicts between the regime of Hu Jing Tao and the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. This thesis will conclude with a discussion of the possible developments between the new regime of Xi Jinping and the new Pontificate of Pope Francis, with the central argument that some sort of conflict is due to continue as long as the CCP remains in power due to the past history mentioned and the political incompatability between Communism and Catholicism, although the extend of the conflict can be heavily reduced through a formal agreement with compromises by noth sides.
Download or read book Chinese Catholic Church in Conflict written by Beatrice Leung and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sociological and historical analysis of the conflict between the state and the Catholic Church in China between 1949 and 2001 during half of a century of the socialist regime. The relationship began with conflict, followed by accomodation and finally a cooperative spirit had developed for a complex web of political and diplomatic reasons. Never in the past the Catholic Church has shown a rigorous growth under the encouragement of the Communist Party to shape the Church in the image of a indigenous and local church and to minimize the influence of the Vatican. There remains a persistent struggle between the underground church, those who remain loyal to early missionaries and to the Holy See, and the official national church controlled by the Party/State. The authors argue that there is hope that the conflict will eventually disappear as the new leadership in Beijing may one day restore a diplomatic relationship with the Vatican.
Download or read book China s Catholics in an Era of Transformation written by Anthony E. Clark and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a collection of essays on China’s modern Catholic Church by a scholar of China-West intellectual and religious exchange. The essays and reflections were mostly written in China while the author was traveling by train, or staying in villages or large cities near to Roman Catholic cathedrals or other important historical sites during research trips to the country. It is clear that Clark’s understanding of Catholicism in China evolved from the first entry to the final ones in 2019. The essays included in this compendium were written in disparate contexts and in response to different events. As such, there is no obvious theme or order to the content. However, despite this, the book provides valuable insights for readers wishing to gain a better understanding of the complex topography of Catholic history in China, the contours of which have undergone stark transformations with each dynastic, political, and ecclesial transition. The information presented serves to highlight and explain the lives of Catholic people and the events that have punctuated one of the most significant dimensions of China’s long history of friendship, conflict and exchange with the West.
Download or read book The Catholic Church in Taiwan written by Francis K.H. So and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society. It considers the situation of the Catholic church of Taiwan during the Japanese Occupation, Taiwan-Vatican Relations from 1949 onwards and triangular Relations among the Vatican, Taiwan and China during Tsai Ing-wen’s Administration. Written from a wide range of perspectives, from history and international relations to literature, philosophy, and education, this volume offers an important perspective on the birth and development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, contributing a key work to religious studies in the Greater China Region.
Download or read book Normalization of U S China Relations written by William C. Kirby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half century. Offers the first multinational, multi archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s.
