Robert Morrison and competing moral principles between Confucianism and Christianity - Focuses on Mr. Morrison’ s work of his late age Domestic Instruction (1832)

Yao, Dadui2019-09-252019-09-252017-10-192013http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/166728There were two themes in early protestant missionaries’ works. One represented by Robert Morrison’ s works is “ competing moral principles between Confucianism and Christianity" , whereas the other by Karl Cfitzla.ff' 5 works is “ opening of China". This paper focuses on Mr. Morrison’ s late work Domestic Instruction (1832) to discuss the first theme. The book, signed by author’ s obscure name “ the debater Rev. Senior Morrison" , is an anthology of Chinese Bible and Morrison’ s miscellaneous papers. Morrison tried to use a traditional style of “domestic instruction" to write Christian literature for competing Confucianism. Hence, the primary topic of this book is to “debate" the nature of God and distinguished it from Xinli—the highest moral principles of Neo — Confucianism.chiWith permission of the license/copyright holderRobert Morrisoncompeting moral principles between Confucianism and ChristianityDomestic InstructionXinliIntercultural and contextual theologiesAsian theologiesRobert Morrison and competing moral principles between Confucianism and Christianity - Focuses on Mr. Morrison’ s work of his late age Domestic Instruction (1832)Article