Translingual Catholics: Chinese Theologians before Vatican II (2025)

Translingual Catholics: Chinese Theologians before Vatican II (2025)

Translingual Catholics
Chinese Theologians before Vatican II
by Jin Lu

Jin Lu is a professor of French at Purdue University Northwest. She is the author of Éléments d’une enquête sur l’usage d’un mot au siècle des Lumières.

Series: Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities

Published: February 2025

ISBN: 9780268209124

Translingual Catholics explores the life experiences and theological writings of twentieth-century Chinese Catholic intellectuals and their impact on global Catholic theology.

Weaving together archival resources in Chinese, French, and English, Translingual Catholics examines the preconciliar theological contribution of Republican-Era Chinese Catholics to global Catholicism and to the dialogue between Christianity and Chinese spiritual traditions. Author Jin Lu sheds light on generations of multilingual Chinese Catholic intellectuals who participated in the elaboration of Catholic theology leading up to the Second Vatican Council. This book situates the lives and works of these theologians in the intersecting global Catholic networks of the time, especially the Jesuit enclave of Xujiahui in Shanghai, the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-André in Bruges, Belgium, the Jesuit Theologate in Lyon-Fourvière, and the ecumenical Cercle Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Paris. By studying the interconnectedness of Chinese Catholic theologians working in multiple languages, Lu demonstrates that inculturation is necessarily a translingual process.

Through its groundbreaking archival research, Translingual Catholics tells the story of these underappreciated intellectuals and uncovers significant contributions to Chinese and global Catholic theology.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Republican-era Chinese Catholics at the Crossroads of History: Telling Their Stories to the World

2. Historical Lineage and the Making of Global Catholic Networks (1912-1927)

3. Home Away from Home: The Abbey of Saint-André as a Center for Global Chinese Catholic networks (1927-1949)

4. Paths to Faith: Chinese Catholic Conversion Narratives before Vatican II

5. From Pagan Virtues to the Salvation of Non-Christians: Father Wang Changzhi’s Contribution to Chinese Christianity

6. Chinese Exodus: François Houang (Huang Jiacheng) and Catholicism in France (1932-1965)

7. Chinese Catholicism’s Mystic Turn and the French Ressourcement Movement (1940s to 1960s)

Afterword

Notes

Glossary

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Index

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