Confucian Questions to Augustine: Is My Cultivation of Self Your Care of the Soul?

In Confucian Questions to Augustine Park compares the works of Confucius and Mencius with those of Saint Augustine. His purpose in so doing is to show Confucian Augustinianism as a new theological perspective on Confucian-Christian ethics and Augustinianism by discovering analogies and differences in their respective understandings of the formation of moral self particularly the acquisition of virtue and how they believe this leads to happiness. Using the method of inter-textual reasoning and assuming continuity between Augustines early and later works he compares Confucius and Menciuss xue si li and yue with Augustines moral learning contemplation sacrament and music respectively. Confucian Augustinianism shows how to enjoy God follow Jesus and live in the Holy Spirit.