A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun

This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled “A Brief Response on the Controversies over  Shangdi ,  Tianshen and  Linghun ” (“Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do  Xámtý ,  Tien Xîn ,  Lîm hoên ”), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit missionary Niccolò Longobardo (1565–1654) in the 1620s and profound