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 Religion CompassVolume 1 Issue 4, Pages 455 - 478 Published Online: 9 Jul 2007 © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 295K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Confucian Theology: Three Models Copyright © 2007 The Author Journal Compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Abstract
If there are still disagreements about whether Confucianism is a religion, there seems to be a consensus that Confucianism does not have a theology. In this article, I attempt to show that there are at least three models of serious god-talks in the Confucian tradition: (i) heaven is discussed in the Confucian classics of Book of Documents, Books of Poetry, and Analects as something transcendent of the world, similar to Christian God in crucial aspects; (ii) heaven is discussed among contemporary Confucians, represented by Xiong Shili, Mou Zongsan, and Tu Weiming, as something 'immanently transcendent', the ultimate reality immanent in the world to transcend the world; and (iii) heaven is discussed by neo-Confucians, particularly the Cheng brothers of the Song dynasty, as the wonderful life-giving activity transcending the world within the world. Religion Compass 1 (2007): 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00032.x | 
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