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One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of «God» (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term <i>Shangti</i> as the semantic equivalent of Deus, he made one of the most innovative cross-cultural missionary translations. Ricci's employment of <i>Shangti</i> was neither a simple rewording of a Chinese term nor the use of

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Author

Sangkeun Kim

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820471303

Category

history

Subjects

Religion, Language Learning, Christian

Updated

2026-03-25