Author Topic: The Far East (Read 27863 times)

1st Mansion Tenant · « **Reply #40 on:** January 03, 2013, 02:02:54 AM »

My family finished the last episode the other day. (Lousy youtube wanted us to watch it two minutes at a time, so we would have to try again until it was willing to cooperate) After the first episode we were hooked, and were rooting for him as well as the dog. Thanks for sharing. :)

1st Mansion Tenant · « **Reply #41 on:** January 03, 2013, 02:07:19 AM »

Quote from: Graham

Episode II, 24:28.

Look how clear his eyes are.

I noticed that too. Kind of odd to see eyes that clear, except maybe in children?
Anyway, it caught my notice as well.

trento · « **Reply #42 on:** January 03, 2013, 03:10:28 AM »

Did anyone read this book?

God and the Ancient Chinese
by Samuel Wang, Ethel R. Nelson

Also found some non-Catholic sources regarding this topic:

http://www.orthodox.cn/localchurch/200406ancientcnhist_en.htm

http://www.bibleprobe.com/chinese.htm

Vladimir · « **Reply #43 on:** January 03, 2013, 07:55:17 AM »

Quote from: trento

Did anyone read this book?

God and the Ancient Chinese
by Samuel Wang, Ethel R. Nelson

Also found some non-Catholic sources regarding this topic:

http://www.orthodox.cn/localchurch/200406ancientcnhist_en.htm

http://www.bibleprobe.com/chinese.htm

The link to the Orthodox website contains interesting information.

However, the other link and possibly the book should be taken with more than a generous amount of salt. There is, alas, always the risk of taking a non-historical and etymologically misguided passion for seeing things in Chinese characters that make them more mysterious and figurative than they really are in historical and linguistic context.

Graham · « **Reply #44 on:** January 10, 2013, 11:39:00 PM »

The history of the kakure kirishitan and various Catholic samurai in Japan is quite pathetic. It's said that St. Francis Xavier found Japan to be wonderfully promising mission territory.

It is also interesting to note that the Catholicism the 'hidden Christians' were confronted with in the 19th Century differed so much (in their view) from what they had learned in the 16th and 17th. There seem to have been drifts in attitude on both sides: the kakure kirishitan were of course unable to stay doctrinally sound during the intervening centuries, while the Europeans had apparently, under the growing pressure of the Enlightenment, banished traces of 'medieval superstition' and 'lingering paganism' from their belief and practice.