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The Spirituality Erased by Zhu Xi and Zhang Zai: What the Four Books and Five Classics Testify About a 'Personal God'

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  1. The Korean Today carries an article arguing that Zhu Xi and Zhang Zai reinterpreted the god of the scriptures as the laws of li and qi, and that traces of a personal god can be found in the Four Books and Three Classics.
  2. The article cites passages from the Shijing, Shujing, Yijing, Analects, Mencius, Zhongyong and Daxue, in which heaven and Shangdi speak, observe and judge.
  3. The article is a programmatic piece that counters the view of Confucianism as a rationalist philosophy and calls for restoring the religious character of early Confucianism.

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The Spirituality Erased by Zhu Xi and Zhang Zai: What the Four Books and Five Classics Testify About a 'Personal God'

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): 주희와 장재가 지운 영성: 사서삼경(四書三經)이 증언하는 ‘인격신’의 실재

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