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By Gregg A. Ten Elshof

Shows how knowledge from an jap culture can enhance the lives of Jesus fans everywhere

This distinctive publication explores methods of utilizing assets from the Confucian knowledge culture to notify Christian dwelling. Neither highlighting nor diminishing the diversities among Confucianism and Christianity, Gregg Ten Elshof displays on questions and matters within the Christian lifestyles with the Confucian worldview in mind.

In studying such matters as kin, studying, and ethics, Ten Elshof units the common Western worldview opposed to the Confucian worldview and considers how each one worldview traces up with the lessons of Jesus. Pointing to a lot that's solid and invaluable within the Confucian culture, Ten Elshof exhibits how mirrored image at the teachings of Confucius can encourage a deeper and richer figuring out of what it quite capacity to dwell the Jesus way.

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