Altering Tian: Spirituality in Early Confucianism

This paper seeks to analyze the three earliest Confucian thinkers and the foundational texts associated with them. In studying these texts this paper attempts to discover how these early Confucian thinkers conceived of Tian. This paper claims the early Confucian thinkers did not make as radical of a...

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Main Author: Atkinson, Jacob Thomas
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spelling ndltd-USF-oai-scholarcommons.usf.edu-etd-68352015-09-30T04:44:48Z Altering Tian: Spirituality in Early Confucianism Atkinson, Jacob Thomas This paper seeks to analyze the three earliest Confucian thinkers and the foundational texts associated with them. In studying these texts this paper attempts to discover how these early Confucian thinkers conceived of Tian. This paper claims the early Confucian thinkers did not make as radical of a departure from the Ancient Chinese religiosity as many modern scholars have suggested. It has often been asserted that the tradition presented by these Confucian thinkers was entirely humanistic, altogether separate from the Ancient Chinese religiosityThis paper contests such claims,instead insisting that the early Confucian spirituality still viewed Tian as God and that the three earliest thinkers actually introduced new concepts which expanded, rather than diminished, upon the role of Tian. 2015-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5637 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6835&context=etd default Graduate Theses and Dissertations Scholar Commons Analects China Heaven Religiosity History of Religion Other Education Religion
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topic Analects
China
Heaven
Religiosity
History of Religion
Other Education
Religion
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China
Heaven
Religiosity
History of Religion
Other Education
Religion
Atkinson, Jacob Thomas
Altering Tian: Spirituality in Early Confucianism
description This paper seeks to analyze the three earliest Confucian thinkers and the foundational texts associated with them. In studying these texts this paper attempts to discover how these early Confucian thinkers conceived of Tian. This paper claims the early Confucian thinkers did not make as radical of a departure from the Ancient Chinese religiosity as many modern scholars have suggested. It has often been asserted that the tradition presented by these Confucian thinkers was entirely humanistic, altogether separate from the Ancient Chinese religiosityThis paper contests such claims,instead insisting that the early Confucian spirituality still viewed Tian as God and that the three earliest thinkers actually introduced new concepts which expanded, rather than diminished, upon the role of Tian.
author Atkinson, Jacob Thomas
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title Altering Tian: Spirituality in Early Confucianism
title_short Altering Tian: Spirituality in Early Confucianism
title_full Altering Tian: Spirituality in Early Confucianism
title_fullStr Altering Tian: Spirituality in Early Confucianism
title_full_unstemmed Altering Tian: Spirituality in Early Confucianism
title_sort altering tian: spirituality in early confucianism
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