Confucian Questions to Augustine: Is My Cultivation of Self Your Care of the Soul? - Hardcover

by Junsoo Park (Author)

In Confucian Questions to Augustine, Park compares the works of Confucius and Mencius with those of Saint Augustine. His purpose in so doing is to show Confucian Augustinianism as a new theological perspective on Confucian-Christian ethics and Augustinianism by discovering analogies and differences in their respective understandings of the formation of moral self, particularly the acquisition of virtue, and how they believe this leads to happiness. Using the method of inter-textual reasoning, and assuming continuity between Augustine's early and later works, he compares Confucius and Mencius's xue, si, li, and yue with Augustine's moral learning, contemplation, sacrament, and music, respectively. Confucian Augustinianism shows how to enjoy God, follow Jesus, and live in the Holy Spirit.

Author Biography

The Reverend Dr. JunSoo Park has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and now serves as Minister at St Andrew's United Reformed Church, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.