Chung Soon Lee

Christian-Confucian Spirituality in Korea

A Comparison of Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book engages in the Confucian-Christian
dialogue in Korea by means of a comparative study of
the cosmologies of Alfred N. Whitehead (1861-1947),
the founder of process philosophy, and Yi Yulgok
(1536-1584), the great scholar of Korean Neo-
Confucianism. Although their philosophical and
cultural traditions are different, Yulgok s and
Whitehead s modes of thought are very similar in
terms of organic, processive, and interrelational
perspectives on the universe. This book argues that
Whitehead s theory of eternal objects-actual entity
has affinities with Yulgok s theory of principle-
material force. Their two contrasting sets of
concepts, based on reciprocal dialectical
interrelationships, view the world as a cosmos
characterized by the process of becoming.
Accordingly, Whitehead s panentheistic
interpretation of the God-world relationship
correlates with Yulgok s Neo-Confucian notion of how
the Great Ultimate relates to material force.
These two concepts suggest a balanced structure of
God and the world. This book then formulates a
Christian Confucian spiritually based on two
thinkers versions of process cosmology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 303g
• ISBN-13: 9783639106527
• ISBN-10: 3639106520
• Artikelnr.: 25696190

Autorenporträt

received his doctorate in Theology and Religion from the Boston
University School of Theology. He has taught theology,religion,
and philosophy at Mokwon University in Korea and Merrimack
College in the United States.