Embracing Change: Postmodern Interpretations of the I Ching from a Christian Perspective
Language: English
Published by University of Scranton Press, Scranton, PA, 1994
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- Title
- Embracing Change: Postmodern Interpretations of the I Ching from a Christian Perspective
- Author
- Lee, Jung Young
- Publisher
- University of Scranton Press, Scranton, PA
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Good +
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0940866234
- ISBN 13
- 9780940866232
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Because this book primarily addresses those in the Christian tradition, it has special purposes: a comprehensive interpretation of change in postmodernity and an enrichment of the Christian faith. Here, Lee says that the I Ching - unlike an ordinary text - helps us not only to learn about the reality of change in ourselves and in the world but to reflect on something that will concern us ultimately. For Christians, our ultimate concern is the Christian faith. Thus, a spontaneous and unmediated reflection on the Christian faith comes from the evocation of "change." For this reason, Embracing Change is more than a comparative study between the I Ching and Christianity or more than dialogue between them because it is intended for mutual enrichments.
For a comprehensive interpretation of change, this book begins with questions people usually ask about the I Ching. Instead of entering into a critique of "what the text is," however, Lee concentrates on what the text and its tradition try to tell us about change.
An important chapter in this book deals with the philosophy of change - because the I Ching is simply the book or classic about I or "change," which is the ultimate reality. Change operates through a complementary dualism of yin and yang, a binary movement of growth and decay or expansion and contraction. Lee discusses the symbolizations of change, providing illustrations of broken-unbroken lines, duograms, trigrams, and hexagrams.
Divination - because it needs proper background knowledge of change to produce any reliable result - and the postmodern characteristics of change as they relate to contemporary developments in the West (such as quantum physics) are treated toward the end. But perhaps the most valuable reference for the study of the I Ching is the fresh translation of the main text, which appears at the end of this volume. The translation attempts to clarify many ambiguous passages found in other translations.
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