Strange Names of God : The Missionary Translation of the Divine Name and the Chinese Responses to Matteo Ricci's Shangti in Late Ming China, 1583-1644

One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of « God (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term