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A History of Christianity in Asia vol. II: 1500–1900

A History of Christianity in Asia vol. II: 1500–1900 Book Reviews / CHRC 88.4 (2008) 623-655 SAMUEL HUGH MOFFETT, A History o/Christianity in Asia vol. II: ISOO-I900 [American Society of Missiology Series 36]. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York 2005, xxvi + 742 pp. ISBN 9781570757013. US$ 35. Moffett, in his masterpiece of A History o/Christianity in Asia vol. II: IS oO-I900 begins with the statement that" all the great religions of the world were born in Asia." In the introduction of his first volume, Moffett expresses his hope that his investigation of early Asian Christianity "may serve as a reminder that the church began in Asia" (xiii). As a consequence, his term ofNestorianism in Asia is used positively in the sense of discovering the Eastern roots of Christianity rather than in a pejorative sense of heretics. In Moffett's critical view of ecu- menical councils against Nestorianism, the Western debate of Christology in the dogmatic tradition does not demonstrate a satisfactory solution to an issue regarding the conflict between Nestorius and Eutyches. Even in the sixteenth- century debate on the christological issue within the Reformation tradition, the Reformed party tends to Nestorian transcendentalism while the Lutheran party to Eutychesianism. The history of Christian mission taking inroad to Asia http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) Brill

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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews / CHRC 88.4 (2008) 623-655 SAMUEL HUGH MOFFETT, A History o/Christianity in Asia vol. II: ISOO-I900 [American Society of Missiology Series 36]. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York 2005, xxvi + 742 pp. ISBN 9781570757013. US$ 35. Moffett, in his masterpiece of A History o/Christianity in Asia vol. II: IS oO-I900 begins with the statement that" all the great religions of the world were born in Asia." In the introduction of his first volume, Moffett expresses his hope that his investigation of early Asian Christianity "may serve as a reminder that the church began in Asia" (xiii). As a consequence, his term ofNestorianism in Asia is used positively in the sense of discovering the Eastern roots of Christianity rather than in a pejorative sense of heretics. In Moffett's critical view of ecu- menical councils against Nestorianism, the Western debate of Christology in the dogmatic tradition does not demonstrate a satisfactory solution to an issue regarding the conflict between Nestorius and Eutyches. Even in the sixteenth- century debate on the christological issue within the Reformation tradition, the Reformed party tends to Nestorian transcendentalism while the Lutheran party to Eutychesianism. The history of Christian mission taking inroad to Asia

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