Catholic Christianity Failed to Take Root in China in the Seventeenth

question 70

Multiple Choice

Catholic Christianity failed to take root in China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because

• A) of opposition from Jesuit missionaries.
• B) of opposition from Protestant missionaries.
• C) of opposition by the pope to "ancestor worship."
• D) the Chinese were just not religious.
• E) of the success of Hindu missionaries, who were closer to Chinese Buddhism in tradition.

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