Art as a Pathway to God

A Historical-Theological Study of the Jesuit Mission to China, 1552-1773
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-67771-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Theology and Mission in World Christianity

This book integrates history, theology, and art and analyzes the Jesuits’ cross-cultural mission in late imperial China. Readers will find a rich collection of resources from historical sites, museums, manuscripts, and archival materials, including previous unpublished works of art. The production and circulation of art from different historical periods and categories show the artistic, theological, and missional values of Christian art. It highlights European Jesuits, Asian Christians, transnationalism, and gives voice to Chinese Christian women and their patronage of art in the seventeenth century. It offers a rare systematic study of the relation between art and mission history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yalili Patrick, Susangeline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Maps and Figures

List of Abbreviations

1 History, Theology, and Art in Cross-Cultural Mission

2 The Jesuits and Christian Art in China

3 Jesuit Mission and Art in the Late Ming Dynasty (1552–1644)

4 Asian Christians and Art in the Late Ming Dynasty (1552–1644)

5 European Jesuits and Art in the Early Qing Dynasty (1644–1773)

6 Asian Christians and Art in the Early Qing Dynasty (1644–1773)

Conclusion

Appendices

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susangeline Yalili Patrick, Ph.D. (2020), Asbury Theological Seminary, is Associate Professor of World Christianity at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City. She is the author of Christians in the City of Shanghai: A History Resurrected above the Sea (Bloomsbury, 2023).