The Jesuits in China and the Legation of Cardinal De Tournon an Examination of Conflicting Evidence and an Attempt at...

The Jesuits in China and the Legation of Cardinal De Tournon an Examination of Conflicting Evidence and an Attempt at...
ISBN-10
1330184874
ISBN-13
9781330184875
Category
Religion
Pages
180
Language
English
Published
2015-06-25
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Robert C. Jenkins

Description

Excerpt from The Jesuits in China and the Legation of Cardinal De Tournon an Examination of Conflicting Evidence and an Attempt at an Impartial Judgment The controversy on the Chinese Rites which agitated the Church of Rome during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is one which, as it involved the interests as well as the orthodoxy of the religious orders and even the veracity of the disputants, can never be impartially treated by a member of the Roman Communion. The bitterness with which it was carried on for more than a century, the voluminous extent of the documentary evidence and of the argumentative treatises which have been written upon it, which form a library in themselves, and the almost hand-to-hand conflict of the witnesses, render the impartial judgment of the whole case, to those interested impossible, and to the most disinterested, a work of extreme difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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