Art as a Pathway to God

A Historical-Theological Study of the Jesuit Mission to China, 1552–1773

Susangeline Yalili Patrick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-67771-5 (ISBN)

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This study investigates the significant role of art in Jesuit mission efforts in China (1552–1773). Archaeological materials and written texts reveal that Jesuits and Chinese Christians sustained their faith and expressed their devotion to God via art.

This book integrates history, theology, and art and analyzes the Jesuits’ cross-cultural mission in late imperial China. Readers will find a rich collection of resources from historical sites, museums, manuscripts, and archival materials, including previous unpublished works of art. The production and circulation of art from different historical periods and categories show the artistic, theological, and missional values of Christian art. It highlights European Jesuits, Asian Christians, transnationalism, and gives voice to Chinese Christian women and their patronage of art in the seventeenth century. It offers a rare systematic study of the relation between art and mission history.

Susangeline Yalili Patrick, Ph.D. (2020), Asbury Theological Seminary, is Associate Professor of World Christianity at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City. She is the author of Christians in the City of Shanghai: A History Resurrected above the Sea (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Acknowledgments

List of Maps and Figures

List of Abbreviations

1 History, Theology, and Art in Cross-Cultural Mission

2 The Jesuits and Christian Art in China

3 Jesuit Mission and Art in the Late Ming Dynasty (1552–1644)

4 Asian Christians and Art in the Late Ming Dynasty (1552–1644)

5 European Jesuits and Art in the Early Qing Dynasty (1644–1773)

6 Asian Christians and Art in the Early Qing Dynasty (1644–1773)

Conclusion

Appendices

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Theology and Mission in World Christianity ; 28
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-67771-2 / 9004677712
ISBN-13	978-90-04-67771-5 / 9789004677715
Zustand	Neuware