Confucianism and Christianity: The First Encounter ISBN: 9789882200852 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Hong Kong University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Religion;
The book centres around a major theme: the first 'confrontation' between the Supreme Ultimate (or T'ien) of the Confucian cosmological order and the Christian anthropomorphic God as conveyed to the Chinese literati by the Western missionaries.