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The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785
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In the spring of 1738, Fr. Bernardino Bevilacqua was hustled out of Shandong to quiet the uproar over his sexual seduction of young Chinese converts. Fr. Alessio Randanini followed him to Macau in 1741. The story of this scandal has remained largely untold for nearly three centuries. Among Christians 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). The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong tells the deeply 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 as 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 a darkening sky of growing anti-Christian policies from the capital.
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Yes, you can access The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785 by D. E. Mungello in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Chinese History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Table of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- Prelude: Wondrous Signs
- 1 - The Trials and Endeavors of Father Antonio
- 2 - The Attempt to Blend Confucianism and Christianity
- 3 - The Return to Shandong after the Anti-Christian Persecution of 1664–1669
- 4 - To Kiss the Image of the Crucified Jesus and to Feel the Whip upon One’s Flesh
- 5 - Christianity and Chinese Heterodox Sects, 1701–1734
- 6 - Shepherds, Wolves, and Martyrs Ãn the Underground church
- Postlude: Requiescat in Pace
- Notes
- Chinese-Character Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author