The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College &

the Harvard-Yenching Institute jointly sponsor a webinar with:

Speaker: Dr. Eunsil Son ’손은실,

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies,

Seoul National University

Discussant: Rev. Dr. Nicolas Standaert, S.J., Professor of Sinology,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

This presentation explores the influence of Thomas Aquinas on Jesuit missionary catechisms, with a particular focus on Catechismus Christianae Fidei (1586), commonly known as the Japanese Catechism, by Alessandro Valignano 范禮安, S.J. an Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan in the late 16th and early 17^th centuries.

Free and open to the public both in person and through Zoom. For online participation, please register HERE. A Zoom link will be sent to the registered participants by January 12, 2025