1958-1987 (89 Volumes); Succeeding title:景風 = Ching feng

Transcultural Imaging: The Jesuits and China / Erik Zürcher - Musical Harmony According to Confucius and Paul / Yeo Khiok-Khng - Pride’s Place in Picturing Persons / Lee H. Yearley - The Doctrines of the Trinity and Christology and Hua-yen Buddhism / Lai Pan-Chiu - The First Protestant Convert of China, Tsae A-ko (1788–1818) - Su Ching

A Christian Monastery for Buddhist Monks, Part II: Buddhist Rhetoric in Karl Ludvig Reichelt's Christian Liturgies / Notto R. Thelle - Literacy, Canon and Social Reality / You Bin - Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok on Cosmology: A Preliminary Comparison with Special Reference to Confucian-Christian Dialogue / Chung Soon Lee - Typology and Prospect of Sino-Christian Theology / Lai Pan-Chiu - Harold B. Bennett, Injustice Made Legal: Deuteronomic Law and the Plight of Widows, Strangers, and Orphans in Ancient Israel / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

Eschatological Faith in the Coming Kingdom, East and West: Mao Tzu-yüan and the Four Pure Lands / Whalen Lai - Shin Buddhism and Axial Civilization / Galen Amstutz - Establishing a Pure Land in This World: Xingyun's Model / Jue Ji - The Entrance and Inheritance of the Kingdom of God in the Christian Religion / Eric K.C. Wong - The "Kingdom of Heaven" in China: Exploring the Taiping Millennial Vision / P. Richard Bohr - Understanding Suffering from Buddhist and Christian Perspectives / Xue Yu - God's Vow: A Pure Land and Resurrection of the Body: A Comparative Study between Pure Land Buddhism and Christianity / Martin Kepp - The Kingdom of God and the Pure Land: A Dialogical Study of Eschatology and Praxis / Lai Pan-Chiu - The Pure Land, the Kingdom of God and the Critique and Transformation of This World / Andres S. K. Tang - God's Reign and the Pure Land in Interfaith and Scientific Discourse on Imago Dei and Buddha Nature / Paul S. Chung

Analysis of the major symbols in the religious poems of the Book of Poetry (c. 1100–600 BC) reveals a spiritual world which is at once holy and secular. The Zhou people believed that the supreme Heaven, gracious and authoritative, granted blessings upon man, and that the ancestral spirits in the numinous world continually protected their descendants. On the one hand, the worshippers responded to the spirits by establishing communication with them, by expressing their sincere gratitude, and, in a mystical sense, by seeking harmony with the divine. On the other hand, pious supplicants expected practical rewards, especially wealth, prosperity, and longevity in return. Such wishes were only realized when worshippers pleased the divinities by presenting rich offerings and by obeying Heaven’s moral rules. These considerations suggest that the symbolic order depicted in the Book of Poetry was so simple, rational, and sacred that it was unable to expand by incorporating sophisticated ontological quests, frenzied ritualistic practices, and practical humanistic concerns—elements which might be found in the symbolic worlds of other cultures and in other belief systems in China.