ZHU Donghua

  • Email : zhudonghua@tsinghua.edu.cn

Ph.D. (Peking University, P. R. China)

Professor (Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, P. R. China)

Professor (Institute for Ethics and Religious Studies [IERS], Tsinghua University)

Special Reviewer (International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, Helsinki; Hong Kong)

Zhu Donghua specializes in Phenomenology of Religion, Chinese Christianity (Jingjiao) in Tang and Yuan Dynasties, and Primitive Christianity, with Syrian Patristics as his particular focus.


Books

A Cross-cultural Study of Chinese Nestorian Literature, Hangzhou: Zhejing University Press, forthcoming.

A Comprehensive Study of Chinese Nestorianism in Tang and Yuan Dynasties, Beijing: The Commercial Press, co-author with Prof. Zhang Xushan et al., forthcoming.

Reflections on the Disciplinary History of Religious Studies, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2016.

From Holiness to Numinous: On the Phenomenological Characteristics of Rudolf Otto’s Numinology, Beijing: Press of Religious Culture, 2007. (English Preface by Diane Obenchain)

Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2018 (special issue for the Study of Chinese Nestorianism), Brill Press, 2018. (Guest editor.)

Science and Religion: Current Debates, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014. (Co-ed. with Prof. Melville Y. Stewart)

A Study on the Religious Thoughts of 20th Century, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007. (Co-editor with Prof. Zhang Zhigang and Tang Xiaofeng)

Aesthetics, Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 1994.


Translation Works

Catechetical Homilies (Theodore of Mopsuestia), Hong Kong: The Logos and Pneuma Press, 2015. (with introduction and Syriac-Chinese-English index by Zhu Donghua) [Chinese]

Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture [ACCS], Taipei: Campus Evangelical Fellowship Press, 2006. (Co-trans. with Lin Zifeng) [Chinese]

The Cambridge History of Christianity (Volume V), Beijing: China Religious Culture Publisher, forthcoming. (Co-trans. with He Bochao et al.) [Chinese]

Studies in Dogmatics: Sin (G.C. Berkouwer), Hong Kong: The Logos and Pneuma Press, 2006. (Co-trans. with Liu Zongkun) [Chinese]

Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe (Thomas Cahill), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2011. [Chinese]

Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (Michael Sandel), Beijing: RenMin University of China Press, 2013. (Co-trans. with Chen wenjuan & Zhu Huiling) [Chinese]

The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius), Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2008. (with introduction and Chinese-English index by Zhu Donghua) [Chinese]

Metaphysics and Rational Theology (Luigi Bogliolo), Heilongjiang: Heilongjiang People’s Press, 2005. (Co-trans. with Zhan Wenjie) [Chinese]

Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age (Kimberley C. Patton), Beijing: RenMin University of China Press, 2005. (with introduction by Zhu Donghua ) [Chinese]


Essays and Book Chapters

“Chinese Christianity before 1550,” in: Tao Feiya & Philip L. Wickeri (eds.), A History of Chinese Christianity: From a Cross-cultural Perspective (635-1949), Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2023. Chapter II, pp.29-45.

“Dunhuang Nestorian Documents and Tatian’s Diatessaron” in: Jason Tsz-shun LAM (ed.), The Use of the Bible in the Chinese Context, Hong Kong: Logos and Pneuma Press, 2023, pp. 31-46.

“On the Convention of Medical Commitment in the Perspective of the Eastern Syrian Apostolic Documents,” in: Journal for Research of Christianity in China, 2022 (12): 45-64.

“The Chronology of the Tang Dynasty Jingjiao Nestorian Theologian Jingjing’s Writings and Translations in relationship to His Thought,” in: Tao Feiya (ed.), Max L. Bohnenkamp (trs.), Beyong Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context, Brill 2022, pp. 25-45.

“Winds of Jingjiao (Chinese Nestorianism) and its Cultural effects,” in: Journal of Macao Polytechnic University, 2022 (3) : 70-78.

“Jewish Ethnical Etiology and Its Historical Evolution: From the Perspective of Female Patriarchs", Academic Seminar on "Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Ancient Near Eastern Classical Studies" (August 14-17, 2022), 110th Anniversary Conference of Henan University, sponsored by the Institute of Comparative Literature and the editorial department of "The Studies of Biblical Literature" at Henan University.

“Chinese Jingjiao and The Antiochene Exegesis,” in: Khiok-Khng Yeo (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China, Oxford University Press, 2021, Chapter 3 (pp. 47-61).

“Phenomenology of Religion,” “History of Religion,” “Comparative Religion,” “Rudolf Otto,” “G. Van der Leeuw,” “F. Max Müller,” “Encyclopedia of Religion,” “Wilhelm Schmidt,” “Nathan Söderblom,” entries for Encyclopedia of China (The Third Edition), 2020. Cf. https://www.zgbk.com/ecph/search/result?SiteID=1&Alias=all&Query=%E6%9C%B1%E4%B8%9C%E5%8D%8E

“Zhu Qianzhi and Traceability related study of Chinese Jingjiao (Nestorianism),” in: Journal of World Religious Cultures, 2019 (6): 35-42.

“Was Nestorius Really a Heretic? An Exploration of Luther’s Comments on Nestorius,” in: Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2018 (special issue for the Study of Chinese Nestorianism), Brill Press, 2018, pp. VII-XX. (Paulos Huang & Zhu Donghua)

“Chinese Jingjiao (Nestorianism) and The Cultural Exchange between East and West,” in: LAI Pan-chiu (ed.), The History of Religious Exchange between China and Foreign Countries from the Perspective of Cultural Globalization, Centre for Religious and Chinese Social Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018, pp.137-166. [ISBN 978-988-16703-7-3]

“The English Translation of Foguoji佛國記 and The Early Buddhist-Christian Dialogue,” in: Hong kong Maitreya Studies慈氏學研究, March 2018, pp. 30-40. [ISBN 978-988-78743-5-5]

“Tat彼: A Sacred and Mysterious Word,” in: The Collected Papers of the 2nd International Forum of Maitreya Studies, Hongkong, March 2018, pp. 263-270. [ISBN 978-988-78743-7-9]

“Reflective Studies on Two Models of Christian-Buddhist Dialogue,” in: Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 2017 (1): 160-166.

“The Nicene Creed and Theology of Chinese Jingjiao” (Logos and Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology (Hong kong), issue 47 (2017): 27-48.

“On the Balance of Inclusivism and Pluralism in Max Müller’s Apology for James Legge’s Translation Strategy,” in:Yearbook of Chinese Theology [Brill 2017],pp. 139-151.

“A Chronological and Content Relationship Analysis on Jingjing’s Works” (Logos and Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology (Hong kong), issue 44 (2016), pp.227-247)

“從援佛入景角度看唐代景教「應身」之「應」的經世內涵,”香港《道風:基督教文化評論》(2013年秋,总第39期),第219-238页。“Ying/應/Nirmana: A Case Study on the Translatability of Buddhism into Jingjiao”, in: Li Tang and Dietmar W. Winkler (ed.), Winds of Jingjiao: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, LIT Verlag, 2016, pp.419-433.

“On the Influence of Buddhism on Christianity in the Tang Dynasty,” in: Maitreya Studies慈氏學研究(2015), Beijing: Chinese history and literature Publishing Co., 2015, pp. 628-635.

“Person and Shen: An Ontological Encounter of Nestorian Christianity with Confucianism in Tang China” (Yearbook of Chinese Theology [Brill 2015],pp. 202-213.)

“Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Ontological Analogy and The Meaning of Prosopon/parsopa/shen身,” in: Religion and Philosophy (Volume 3), Beijing: Social Science Literature Press, 2014, pp. 155-167.

“Phenomenology of Religion,” in: Zhang Zhigang (ed.), The handbook of Religious Studies (Revised Edition), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2013, pp. 349-381.

“The Nestorian Stele in Tang China: it’s Calligraphic Style and the Genealogy of Rubbings,” in: Logos and Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology (Hong kong), issue 34 (2011), pp.233-254.

“Boethius: A Bridge of Thought between Classical Antiquity and Middle Ages,” in: Tian Wen天问, Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2009, pp. 145-162.

“The Religious Dimension of Neoconservative Political Philosophy,” in: Yearbook of Tsinghua Philosophy (2007), Contemporary China Publishing House, 2008, pp. 189-192.

“A Study of Political Theology of the New Religious Right in Contemporary America,” in: Zhuo Xinpin & Edwin Hui (eds.), The Study of Christianity (Volume X), Beijing: China Religious Culture Publisher, 2008, pp. 222-245.

“Verstehen and Idealtypen: On the Methodological Basis of Leeuw's Religious Phenomenology,” Journal of Tsinghua University(Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2007 (4): 55-62.

“On Rudolf Otto’s Numinological Elements,” in: Yearbook of Tsinghua Philosophy (2005), Contemporary China Publishing House, 2007, pp. 198-213.

“On Phenomenological Methodology of Rudolf Otto’s Numinology,” in: Regent Review of Christian Thoughts (Volume VI) (2005), pp. 266-280.

“Max Scheler and his Selected Works,” in: Peking University Journal of Philosophy, 2005 (6[I]): 311-316.

“Husserl’s, Heidegger’s and Scheler’s Commentary on Das Heilige and the Phenomenological Unscrambling Approach to Otto’s Numinology,” in: Peking University Journal of Philosophy, 2004 (5[II]): 86-102.

“Is Phenomenology an Enterprise without Any Gain in Knowledge?” in: Hebei Academic Journal, 2004 (5): 66-70.

“Covenantal Thinking, Daoist Reform and New Ethics,” in: Journal for the Study of Christian Culture, 2003 (9): 73-84.