Chung, Paul S.2019-09-252019-09-252017-07-2720120009-4668http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/166222This paper demonstrates an attempt to understand Confucian-Christian dialogue in a global-critical and intercivilizational framework, and develops a postcolonial hermeneutics in appreciation of religion and tradition underlying people’s life in social construction. It examines Matteo Ricci’s intercivilizational dialogue with Confucianism and his appropriation of Mencius’ teaching. The paper further investigates the Confucian role in constructing society in terms of ritual and self-cultivation according to Zunzi, notably as seen in the context of Boston Confucianism, while dealing with contemporary discussion of church, Confucian virtue ethics, and socialism in China. Confucianism as a living tradition becomes a catalyst in bringing Christian faith to the project of ethical humanism, and Confucian social ontology of ren and politics of rectification become an interlocutor for Christian theology to be more socially engaged and amenable to reconciliation, justice, and recognition of the other. Given this, a Mencian notion of rectification and Bonhoeffer’s ethics of resistance come together for comparative study of religious ethics, as projecting on ethical humanism underlying postcolonial constructive theology in archaeological sociobiographical formation.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderRicci, Matteo, 1552-1610Mencius, 371?-289? BCXunzi, 340-245 BCLin, ManhongAbraham, (Biblical patriarch)Bible. Genesis 12-25Christianity and ConfucianismDialogue (Theology)Marxism and ConfucianismHumanistic ethicsReligious ethicsComparative religious ethicsIntercultural and contextual theologiesAsian theologiesComparative religion and interreligious dialogueChristian-ConfucianBiblical TheologyOld TestamentArticle