Vol. 38: "Différence" and "Écart"(Autumn 2017)

Editorial Foreword

How "L'écart" Challenges and Reshapes the "Universal" (Chinese)

 

How "L'écart" Challenges and Reshapes the "Universal" (English)

 


I. Dao Wu Chang Ming: Study of Theories and Classics​

Christian Universalism

Kevin HART, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia

 

Revisiting the Tower of Babel and Listening to the Different Voices in the Text

Archie C. C. LEE, Distinguished Professor, Center of Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies, Shandong University

 

Maurice Blanchot’s Poetics of Separation

WANG Hai, Associate Professor at School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China

 

Aesthetic Distance from Reality: Hans Blumenberg’s Reading of J. S. Bach’s Matthäuspassion

Hu Jihua, Professor, The Institute for Transcultural Studies, Beijing International Studies University

 


II. Hun Yuan Zhi Xing: Study of Christian Thinkers

On the Connotation and Function of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s “Kyriarchy”

SONG Xuhong, Professor, School of Literature Journalism and Communnication, Minzu University of China

 

Biblical Studies in light of Paul Ricoeur’s Narrative Theory

ZHANG Zhaoyang, Ph. D. Candidate, School of Humanities, Zhejiang University

 


III. Hua Tong Xuan Li: Study of Christanity Society and Ethics

Polycentric Structures in the History of World Christianity

Klaus KOSCHORKE, the Faculty for Protestant Theology, the University of Munich

 

The Parable of the Great Banquet (Luke 14:15-24) and Greco-Roman Banquet Rituals and Values

YANG Yan, Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Sun Yat-sen University

 

“Assyrian” or “Aramean”: The Ethnic Identity of Syriac Christians

LIU Boyun, Lecturer at School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University

 


IV. Jing Guan Wu Se: Study of Christian Culture and Literature

Richard Wilbur: Greatest American Poet of the Last Half-Century

David Lyle JEFFREY, Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities,Baylor University

 

From Vernacular Version to Easy Wenli Version: A Comparison of Two Versions of Song of Songs Translated by S. I. J. Schereschewsky

LIU Yan, Professor, The Institute of Transcultural Studies, Beijing International Studies University

 


IV. Qing Ji Ming Gong: Academic Debate and Responses

Exiting our Current Moral Predicament: An analysis of the Renmin Forum on “Dialogue between Confucia and Christian Ethics”

YANG Xuemei, Lecturer, School of Maxism Studies, Nanyang Normal University XIE Wenyu, Professor, Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies of Shandong University

 

Literature, Arts and Religions in a Post-Secular Horizon: Review of the 13th Summer Institute on Theology and Humanities

ZHAO Jing, Assistant Professor, School of Libral Arts, Renmin University of China