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- Title
"Essay on the Term for Deity," a Key Text of William Jones Boone in his Nineteenth-Century Debate with Walter Medhurst on the Protestant Chinese Term for God'.
- Authors
Oey, Thomas G.
- Abstract
The article discusses the religious debate between Protestant missionaries in China during the 19th century on which Chinese term should be used for "God," focusing particularly on the opinions of William Jones Boone, Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, and Walter Henry Medhurst of the London Missionary Society. Boone felt the term used should be "Shangdi," while Medhurst asserted the correct translation would be the word "Shen." Both men were elected to the Delegates Bible Committee organized in the 1840s to create a Chinese version of the Protestant Bible. The articles written by Boone and Medhurst which appeared in the periodical "Chinese Repository" are considered.
- Subjects
CHINA; NAME of God in Christianity; MEDHURST, Walter Henry; BOONE, William Jones; RELIGIOUS disputations; BIBLICAL translations; CHINESE language; TERMS &; phrases; TRANSLITERATION; CHRISTIAN missions; MISSIONARIES; 19TH century Chinese history
- Publication
Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal, 2009, Vol 31, p1
- ISSN
1041-875X
- Publication type
Article