The author focuses on one of the most fascinating texts of the 17th and 18th century China mission - the Tianxue benyi (The Original Meaning of the Heavenly Teachings) and the more elaborate Gujin jingtian jian (Mirror on the Worship of Heaven in Ancient Times and Nowadays).

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Claudia von Collani is an adjunct professor for Missiology and Dialogue of Religions at the Faculty for Catholic Theology of the University of Würzburg, Germany. Her research focus is on East Asian missionary history, in particular the Jesuit China mission and Chinese Figurism. Besides ten books (recently a two-volume edition of Kilian Stumpf's Acta Pekinensia, co-edited with Paul Rule) she has published numerous articles, on topics such as Jesuit theatre and Jesuit Yijing studies, and contributed biographies to the Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (3rd edition) and to the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon.

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Danksagung

Vorbemerkung zum Forschungsstand

Abkürzungsverzeichnis

Dynastietafel

1. Einführung: Von Europa nach China

2. Die Textgeschichte des Tianxue benyi: Manuskriptfassungen und Quellen des Tianxue benyi und des Gujin jing Tian jian

3. Der historische Kontext

4. Joachim Bouvets Missionstheologie

5. Die Texte

6. Literaturverzeichnis

Glossarium der alten zur Pinyin-Umschrift

Glossarium der Kapiteltitel von chinesischen Klassikern und Namen der Trigramme/Hexagramme

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