Comparing Confucianism and Christianity

The premise of comparing Confucianism and Christian Confucianism is focused on lotus heart or human virtue (Ching 68). , Old man and brother, friend with friends (Hopfe). These relationships have revolutionized the political system that adopts a compassionate approach. Confucius tried to revive the ancient Chinese culture by redefining the importance of society and the government.

Since the first encounter with Confucianism by Europeans, the classification problem of Confucianism is controversial. From the 16th to the 17th century, Christian Jesuit, the first European in China, thought that Confucianism is not a religion but a moral system and is compatible with Christianity. Jesuits including Matteo Ricci regarded Chinese rituals as "folk rituals" coexisting with Catholic spiritual rituals. By the early eighteenth century, this preliminary portrayal was rejected by the Dominican Republic and the Franciscan assembly, causing a controversy among East Asian Catholics called 'ritual controversy'. The Dominican and the Franciscans believe that the worship of Chinese ancestors is idolatry contradictory to Christian beliefs. Pope Benedict XIV emphasized this view, which ordered a ban on Chinese rite.

In the process, the Jesuit Christianity became Confucianism. In other words, they are consolidating Confucianism into Christianity. As Franciscan and the Dominican insisted this to be blasphemy, this caused a struggle between the factions in the Catholic world; this is not Christianity. The Pope listened to the Franciscan society and the Dominican people and ordered them to go home to the Jesuits. At this point the Chinese emperor angrily asked: "Who is this pupil?" "How can he teach me what to do in my land and how do they do business emperor very much As he was angry, the pope sent the Jesuit back home. Then he banned all Christians at once

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As other Catholic groups began to enter China, problems between Confucianism and Catholicism developed. These groups began to see how the Jesuits fused Confucianism and Christianity, and whether the Jesuits are becoming Chinese. They are angry because they feel that the Jesuits are compromising the Catholic faith. They started writing on the Pope to tell them about their observation of the Jesuits and how they compromised the Catholic Church. The pope is not satisfied with the news he received from China. But the Jesuits did not bring the storm to China, but it is important to note that their progress was very late. Due to the influx of other Catholic groups such as Dominican and Franciscan, the Chinese began to be skeptical about Jesuits. The Chinese began to regard Christianity as a superstitious religion. As these events unfolded, the era called etiquette controversy developed. !