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The China History Podcast

Ep. 180 | The Earliest Years of Christianity in China

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Society & Culture, History

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Many people don't know that the first preaching of Christianity in China pre-dated the Jesuits by more than nine centuries. We'll take a second cursory look at the Jesuits as part of a bigger story that includes Christianity in China during the Tang and Yuan dynasties. We'll see that prior to the arrival of Matteo Ricci, there were two other lesser-known attempts to grow Christianity in China.

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Hey everyone me again, Lhasa Montgomery, China History Podcast, episode 180.

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The earliest years of Christianity in China this time.

0:59.6

We already took a nice shallow dive back in episode 98 on the life and times of the

1:06.0

Jesuits who began coming to China in the mid 16th century starting with Ricci and

1:11.3

Ruggieri. But long before the Jesuits, however, there were others who played roles, small

1:18.1

and large, in the early propagation of Christianity in China. It was a hard sell back then and the religion couldn't have appeared more alien in the eyes of the Chinese of antiquity.

1:30.0

Jesus, not being Chinese, that alone made it difficult for the locals to embrace it as

1:36.2

readily as Buddhism and Taoism. But that didn't stop these fishers of men who came from the lands of Christendom with their piety, their zeal,

1:47.5

and industry to bring the teachings of their Lord Jesus Christ to the people of China, and of course to everyone else in between

1:54.4

Europe and the Far East. So let's take a look at the efforts of these

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