Der ursprungliche Sinn der Himmelslehre (Tianxue benyi)

The author focuses on one of the most fascinating texts of the 17th and 18th century China mission - the Tianxue benyi ---- (The Original Meaning of the Heavenly Teachings) and the more elaborate Gujin jingtian jian ----- (Mirror on the Worship of Heaven in Ancient Times and Nowadays).

Claudia von Collani is an adjunct professor for Missiology and Dialogue of Religions at the Faculty for Catholic Theology of the University of Würzburg, Germany. Her research focus is on East Asian missionary history, in particular the Jesuit China mission and Chinese Figurism. Besides ten books (recently a two-volume edition of Kilian Stumpf's Acta Pekinensia, co-edited with Paul Rule) she has published numerous articles, on topics such as Jesuit theatre and Jesuit Yijing studies, and contributed biographies to the Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (3rd edition) and to the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon.