I’ve been refraining from posting any papers here recently until I’ve had them marked and returned, but here’s one that’s just come back on an attempt to provide an understanding of Christ in ancestor-worship religions. I’m not getting into the whole “should Christians take part in ancestor rites?” question because I find it excruciatingly boring. We’ve been blathering about it for four hundred years and we still only have contradictory guidance to give people. So the paper isn’t about that; it’s about how people from those cultures can see Christ as their older brother. Read more about Towards a Confucian Christology of the Firstborn