Journal Articles by Stephanie M Wong
Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America: Plenary, 2022
Plenary at CTSA 2022 (Reid Locklin, Stephanie Wong, Mara Brecht)
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Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, 2022
This article calls for explicit attention to the temporal dimension in interreligious reflection ... more This article calls for explicit attention to the temporal dimension in interreligious reflection on the common good. Pope Francis's encyclical Fratelli Tutti (2020) urges people to care for others with renewed commitment to the common good and recommends fraternal love and dialogue as a needed remedy for a wide range of social problems. In making the case that we are saved from these socio spiritual ills not alone but together, Francis employs Christian notions of history and salvation. I argue that any meaningful interreligious reflection must be willing to open up the very concept of common good to comparative reflection, in order to better grasp how the other perceives the problems and possibilities of their time.
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Journal of Global Catholicism, 2020
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Journal of Global Catholicism, 2021
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While i... more [For the "Catholics & Culture" website initiative and the Journal of Global Catholicism]
While internet-based technologies can open up greater awareness of the world or create self-perpetuating echo-chambers, the Catholics and Cultures project aspires to do the former. Aiming to ‘widen the lens’ on the variety of Catholic communities and practices, the site delivers on this goal by introducing viewers to a vast array of articles, pictures and videos from around the world. The organization of the site by country and by certain key features of lived Catholicism offers some interpretive guidance. However, the project could be strengthened as a pedagogical resource if it were more extensively thematized and hosted reflections on potential heuristic tools for making sense of Catholicism’s rich diversity.
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Ching Feng: A Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture, 2018
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Journal of World Christianity, 2018
As a particular case study of “world Christianity,” this article seeks to
develop a Chinese Catho... more As a particular case study of “world Christianity,” this article seeks to
develop a Chinese Catholic epistemological foundation for the Church’s theological
quest to know God. It is a comparative study of the thought of Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming (1472–1529) and the Belgian Jesuit Joseph Maréchal. I demonstrate how both thinkers affirm the subjective contribution of the human mind in any act of knowing while still maintaining that any accurate or moral knowledge participates in a higher order of ontological being. The agreements between Wang’s Neo-Confucian and Maréchal’s Transcendental Thomist theories of mind make for a fruitful convergence of the Chinese and Catholic intellectual traditions, from which Chinese theology can contribute to the worldwide Church’s understanding of God.
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Ching Feng: A Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture, 2016
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Studies in World Christianity, 2016
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Book Chapters by Stephanie M Wong
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Theology Without Borders, ed. Leo Lefebure, 2021
How can we best understand the work of Chinese Catholics in interreligious dialogue? This essay p... more How can we best understand the work of Chinese Catholics in interreligious dialogue? This essay puts ecclesial and academic discussion of interreligious dialogue in relation with the social realities of religious relations in China: the minority status of Christians as a demographic group, the plurality and multiple religious belonging common to Chinese religious life, and the political power of the state managing religious groups and their relations for state ends like social stability and harmony. Drawing on the insights of sociologists of Chinese religion, I consider the likelihood, challenges and possibilities of Catholic participation in interreligious dialogue.
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Modern Chinese Theologies I: Mainland and Mainstream (edited by Chloe F. Starr. Fortress Press), 2023
This paper analyzes the wartime writings of two twentieth century Catholics in China: Bishop Yu B... more This paper analyzes the wartime writings of two twentieth century Catholics in China: Bishop Yu Bin of Nanjing and the Belgian-Chinese missionary Vincent Lebbe. Both wrote passionately about the need for the Chinese Catholic Church to support the Chinese defensive war effort against Japan. I parse their speeches and published essays on the topic of armed defense, in order to come to a better understanding of how they used Biblical passages (especially from the Catholic Deuterocanonical literature like Judith) and examples from Catholic history to justify their involvement in the anti-Japanese resistance. (In press)
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Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution (edited by Daryl R. Ireland, Baylor U Press), 2023
In Republican Era China, Catholic clergy in Beijing and Shanghai hoped to rally the Church as an ... more In Republican Era China, Catholic clergy in Beijing and Shanghai hoped to rally the Church as an indigenous and interconnected network for the task of evangelization. The task was two-fold, to both indigenize the faith and to convert lives. Thus, Catholic leaders of the time promoted sometimes contradictory priorities in the hopes of infusing Chinese modernity with Catholic values. On the one hand, the apostolic delegate Celso Costantini hoped to present the Church with a Chinese face. He commissioned artists from Furen University and elsewhere to produce Chinese Catholic fine art to demonstrate the indigeneity and value of the Church in modern society. Missionaries designed Chinese-style catechism aides to depict faith as a form of the Chinese good life. On the other hand, these evangelistic works inculcated a conservative set of traditional Catholic teachings and moral norms more in keeping with the China that was passing away. In the face of the New Culture Movement of the 1920s, which was obsessed with making China new, Catholic posters used indigenization to reaffirm traditional moral norms and duties while representing them in indigenous language and imagery.
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Confucianism and Christianity Interreligious Dialogue on the Theology of Mission (Edited by Edmund Chia, Routledge Press), 2021
In this chapter of the edited volume [Confucianism and Christianity: Interreligious Dialogue on t... more In this chapter of the edited volume [Confucianism and Christianity: Interreligious Dialogue on the Theology of Mission], I consider Catholic witness a) in light of the Church's recent sexual abuse and financial scandals, and b) in conversation with Confucian role ethics. Focusing on the Catholic Church in Asia, I argue that Confucian conceptions of role ethics can help put moral responsibility at the center of Catholic thought and practice.
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Encyclopedia Articles by Stephanie M Wong
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Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, 2019
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Papers by Stephanie M Wong
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Presented at 'An International Conference on Confucianism and Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dia... more Presented at 'An International Conference on Confucianism and Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dialogue, Washington DC< March 4-5, 2016.'
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Presented at "Christianity in Asia' conference, U. of Munster, Germany, Sept. 14-27, 2014.
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Presented at 'Engaging Particularities' Conference, Boston College, March 26-27, 2015
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Presented at 'Engaging Particularities' conference, Boston College, March 20-21, 2014
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Journal Articles by Stephanie M Wong
While internet-based technologies can open up greater awareness of the world or create self-perpetuating echo-chambers, the Catholics and Cultures project aspires to do the former. Aiming to ‘widen the lens’ on the variety of Catholic communities and practices, the site delivers on this goal by introducing viewers to a vast array of articles, pictures and videos from around the world. The organization of the site by country and by certain key features of lived Catholicism offers some interpretive guidance. However, the project could be strengthened as a pedagogical resource if it were more extensively thematized and hosted reflections on potential heuristic tools for making sense of Catholicism’s rich diversity.
develop a Chinese Catholic epistemological foundation for the Church’s theological
quest to know God. It is a comparative study of the thought of Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming (1472–1529) and the Belgian Jesuit Joseph Maréchal. I demonstrate how both thinkers affirm the subjective contribution of the human mind in any act of knowing while still maintaining that any accurate or moral knowledge participates in a higher order of ontological being. The agreements between Wang’s Neo-Confucian and Maréchal’s Transcendental Thomist theories of mind make for a fruitful convergence of the Chinese and Catholic intellectual traditions, from which Chinese theology can contribute to the worldwide Church’s understanding of God.
Book Chapters by Stephanie M Wong
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While internet-based technologies can open up greater awareness of the world or create self-perpetuating echo-chambers, the Catholics and Cultures project aspires to do the former. Aiming to ‘widen the lens’ on the variety of Catholic communities and practices, the site delivers on this goal by introducing viewers to a vast array of articles, pictures and videos from around the world. The organization of the site by country and by certain key features of lived Catholicism offers some interpretive guidance. However, the project could be strengthened as a pedagogical resource if it were more extensively thematized and hosted reflections on potential heuristic tools for making sense of Catholicism’s rich diversity.
develop a Chinese Catholic epistemological foundation for the Church’s theological
quest to know God. It is a comparative study of the thought of Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming (1472–1529) and the Belgian Jesuit Joseph Maréchal. I demonstrate how both thinkers affirm the subjective contribution of the human mind in any act of knowing while still maintaining that any accurate or moral knowledge participates in a higher order of ontological being. The agreements between Wang’s Neo-Confucian and Maréchal’s Transcendental Thomist theories of mind make for a fruitful convergence of the Chinese and Catholic intellectual traditions, from which Chinese theology can contribute to the worldwide Church’s understanding of God.
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