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The first deeper exchange between Western and Far Eastern religious and philosophical thought was due to the Jesuits. They arrived in China in the 16th century and began the impressive work of translation and dialogue. The Belgian Jesuit François Noël made an important contribution to this dialogue with his Philosophia sinica (1711). What is this book about? Apparently, its main purpose was to provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of the Chinese Confucian tradition, past and contemporary, although it can also to be read as the last major contribution to the rites controversy. In this paper I deal with the first part of the first treatise of Noël’s Philosophia which aimed to show that the Ancient Chinese tradition was theist and grasped numerous truths of natural theology.
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The text examines Early Modern theology’s explanation of the world and nature in the context of the gradually differing hermeneutical approach of the natural sciences. Using the criterion of systematic theoretical difference, distinguishing from an objectivising and performative perspective, it reflects on the nature of the approaches of theology and natural science as they are being shaped in the Late Middle Ages (Nicholas of Cusa, nominalism) and during the Early Modern period (theologia naturalis, Baroque scholasticism). The text refers to the interconnectedness at the time of metaphysical rationality with the religious world-view and looks into the issue of whether Early Modern theology’s methods were an adequate tool in the face of the new epistemological requirements of the natural sciences. The reasoning of positive and speculative theology (evidence from the Bible and from reason) appears to be formalising the content of faith and therefore does not seem to develop its own potential contribution of theology to the explanation of creation as nature.
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