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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/echoes-of-thomas-aquinas-in-al
 essandro-valignanos-japanese-catechism-reason-faith-and-the-art-of-context
 ualization/
SUMMARY:Alessandro Valignano's Japanese Catechism: Aquinas's Influence and 
 Valignano's Sensitivity to Context
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultura
 l History\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. You are welcome to attend in person
 \, or you can register to attend via Zoom.\n\nThis presentation explores t
 he influence of Thomas Aquinas on Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano
 ’sCatechismus Christianae Fidei(1586)\, commonly known as the “Japanes
 e Catechism.” This work shows Aquinas’s profound impact on both its me
 thodology and its content. Through a detailed textual analysis\, the study
  examines how Aquinas’s theological insights and methods shaped the teac
 hing of Christian doctrine in non-Christian cultural contexts. It also hig
 hlights Valignano’s critical engagement with the religious landscape of 
 16th-century Japan and his skillful integration of rational argumentation 
 and contextualization to explain Christian doctrine and address contempora
 ry Japanese religions.\n\nView Event Poster Here
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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