WI christian china

In OTL during the reign of emperor Kangxi, jesuits were welcomed. However chinese christians wanted to continue traditional confucian ceremonies and ancestor worship. The Jesuits wanted to make accomodations but the dominicans did not. The pope banned accomodationism and the Emperor banned the catholic church from china.
In the 1940s the pope finally did what the jesuits recommended all along and were welcomed(before the communists took over).

Suppose instead the Jesuits win the day, and christianity accomodates confucianism (which isnt that difficult to imagine). Does a more christianized china affect the way European powers treat china???
Does it also increase chinese adoption of western ideas or perhaps even a confucianist christianity catches on.
 
Catholicism in China would look nothing like catholicism in Europe. It would be be an amalgamation of everything historical Chinese religion had going plus a top layer of Christianity. There would be tons of new Saints and somehow Confuscious would have foretold the coming of Jesus. It would definitely be interesting and far beyond the threshold of any other Christian theological split with the exception of possibly mormanism and jehovas witnesses.
 
I agree it would be different but most of confucius writings were fairly well kept. Instead Jesus would be portrayed in chinese christianity in the role of Master Sage who extends, revises, and compliments the moral teachings of confucius. Confucius was very strong negative morality (what not to do), Jesus was strong in positive morality.

Plato and Aristotle were coopted quite nicely into the christian canon (unlike islam which later on rejected greek philosophy, Christianity never rejected Aristotle ). Likewise the core of confucius could be carried over.

What would be really interesting is how western powers would view a christian china.
 
would be more interesting if it took ground back in ~600-900CE by help of Nestorian Missionaries from Sassarid empire (getting mixed with a good dose of Zoroastians), and Tartar converts, ending up being the 3th big type of christianity after Catholic and Ortodox
 

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Catholicism in China would look nothing like catholicism in Europe. It would be be an amalgamation of everything historical Chinese religion had going plus a top layer of Christianity. There would be tons of new Saints and somehow Confuscious would have foretold the coming of Jesus. It would definitely be interesting and far beyond the threshold of any other Christian theological split with the exception of possibly mormanism and jehovas witnesses.
This didn't happen in Korea... or any other Eastern State. Confucianism is an ideology, an ethic, not a religion. South Korea is Christian, while simultaneously being Christian. It doesn't make wild claims that Confucius foretold the coming of Jesus Christ, though it does state that Confucius was, in fact, Korean. :rolleyes:
 
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