Abstract
Wisdom for common life is the most essential aspect of Chung Yong and that wisdom for common life in Chung Yong should be a theological and pastoral task in the Korean American context. The fact that theological discourse often tends to be speculative in nature and is understood to be in the domain of elitists should be reconsidered. Instead, its commonality, which is manifested in the everyday life of ordinary people, should be brought forward as the focus of the theological and pastoral task in a Korean American context. To this end, each chapter description is provided.
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- 1.
Ilpyong Kim. Korean-Americans: Past, Present, and Future. (Elizabeth, NJ: Hollym International Corp., 2004), 13.
- 2.
Chung Yong in Chinese and Korean are 中庸, 중용 respectively.
- 3.
Chung Yong as “the Doctrine of the Mean” was first rendered by James Legge, a British missionary, in his first translation of The Chinese Classics. Legge altered the title which then became “The State of Equilibrium and Harmony” when he retranslated Chung Yong as a part of Liji (The Record of Rites) in 1885.
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The Four Books was a basic text for the national civil service examination between years 1313 and 1905. In contemporary context, it is estimated to be “perhaps the most profound, most philosophical, most metaphysical, and most religious text in the whole body of ancient Confucian literature.” See Ian P. McGreal, ed., Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea and the World of Islam (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995), 56.
- 5.
Wing-tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963), 96.
- 6.
Jiyuan Yu, “The Aristotelian Mean and Confucian Mean,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29, no. 3 (2002): 337.
- 7.
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, s.v. “moderation.”
- 8.
Routledge Curzon Encyclopedia, ed. Xinzhong Yao (London & New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003), s.v. “Zhongyong.”
- 9.
Robert C. Neville, Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World, Chinese Philosophy and Culture (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), 175–176.
- 10.
Tu Wei-Ming, Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Confucian Religiousness (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 133. See also Tiziana Lippiello, “On the Difficult Practice of the Mean in Ordinary Life: Teachings from Zhongyong,” in Rooted in Hope, ed. Barbara Hoster, Dirk Kuhlmann, and Zbigniew Wesolowski, Monumenta Serica Monograph Series LXVIII/I (New York: Routledge, 2017), 84–85.
- 11.
Routledge Curzon Encyclopedia, s.v. “Zhongyong.”
- 12.
Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall, Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001), 151.
- 13.
Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, 96.
- 14.
Kanaya Osamu, “The Mean in Original Confucianism.” in Chinese Language, Thought, and Culture, ed. Philip J. Ivanhoe (Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1996), 86. See also Rostam J. Newwith, Law in the Time of Oxymora: A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law. Juris Diversitas (New York: Routledge, 2018), 192–193.
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Ibid, 87.
- 16.
Chi-yun Chang, “The Ta Hsueh and the Chung Yung,” Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review 28, no. 4 (1987): 20.
- 17.
Shi Zhongwen, “Traditional Culture Embodied in Confucianism and China’s Search for a Harmonious Society and Peaceful Development,” in China in Search of a Harmonious Society, ed. Sujian Guo and Baogang Guo (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008), 41.
- 18.
Chang, “the Ta Hsueh and the Chung Yung,” 22.
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Son, A. (2020). Introduction: Wisdom for Common Life (Chung Yong) as a Theological and Pastoral Task in the Korean American Context. In: Son, A. (eds) Pastoral Care in a Korean American Context. Asian Christianity in the Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48575-7_1
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