明末清初天主教堂刻文献的特征及价值

Characteristics and Value of the Catholic Church-published Documents in Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties

堂刻文献是基督宗教为传教需要在教堂或会院刊刻的文献.明末清初,天主教会在浙江、北京、广东、福建、湖北、上海和陕西等地教堂均有文献刊刻.内容以宗教为主,辅以人文和科技,天主教各修会如耶稣会、方济各会、多明我会和奥思定修会刊刻的文献内容和方式有一定差异.明末传教士开创的堂刻文献模式影响深远,在天主教传播史、中国刊刻史和中西文化交流史上都具有重要意义.

Ecclesiastical literature are documents that need to be printed in churches or by congregation for missionary purposes.In late Ming and early Qing dynasties,Catholic churches in Zhejiang,Beijing,Guangdong,Fujian,Hubei,Shanghai and Shanxi and other places published documents mainly on religion,supplemented by themes on humanities and technologies.There were certain differences in the contents and methods of the documents published by the Catholic churches in China of Jesuits,Franciscans,Dominican orders and Augustinian Orders.The model of Catholic church-publication initiated by the missionaries in late Ming Dynasty left a farreaching influence.Catholic church-published documents are of great significance in the history of Catholic dissemination,of Chinese publication and of cultural communications between China and the West.