2025「神」與「道」國際研討會｜Who is God? What is the Dao?

「神是誰？道又為何？」耶穌會臺北利氏學社與巴黎利瑪竇學院將於2025年5月7至9日，共同主辦國際研討會，國家圖書館漢學研究中心合辦，邀請當代的猶太教、基督宗教和道教學者專家，重新審視十七、十八世紀在中國的耶穌會士首次提出的這個議題，深入探究「神」與「道」這兩個詞語的歷史與當代意涵。

本次會議的目的主要圍繞在「神」和 「道 」這兩個關鍵字，重新聚焦中西方之間的宗教對話。我們將探討這兩個概念在歷史中如何演變，以及當代宗教的實踐與反思對它們的理解。在中國，「道「通常用於傳統道教，也見於宋明理學（新儒學）的語境中；而在西方，「神」一詞在猶太教、天主教和基督新教中都有其各自的解讀。會議中臺北利氏學社與巴黎利瑪竇學院，將邀請來自這五種不同宗教傳統的各方學者，深入探究這兩個詞語的歷史與當代意涵。將「神」與「道」相提並論並非新鮮事，早在十七、十八世紀，有一群少數的耶穌會士便已開始研究。雖然天主教和基督新教在翻譯Deus及God時，都傾向選用強調其主權的詞彙，即Master of Heaven (天主Tianzhu) 和 Lord on High (上帝Shangdi) ──且新教徒同樣選擇以「道「來翻譯《約翰福音》（天主教譯為《若望福音》）序言中的logos一詞。因此本次會議的首要重點，即是探尋「神」與「道」在天主教與基督新教傳統中的歷史互動。

時間：2025年5月7至9日  09:00 – 17:00
地點：國家圖書館(臺北市中正區中山南路20號3樓 國際會議廳)

International Conference “God and the Dao”, May 7-9, 2025, National Library, Taipei, Taiwan 

Day 1 (Wednesday 7 May) 
9:00     Opening session  
Session 1: 17th-Century Jesuit Focus on the Dao and Taiji 
Moderator: Chen Fang-chung 陳方中 (Department of History, Fujen University) 
9:20     Joachim Bouvet and the Dao   
Claudia von Collani (Department of Catholic Theology, University of Würzburg) 
Discussant: Thierry Meynard 
10:10   Two Figurists’ Theological Lens of the Dao: Prémare’s and Foucquet’s Confucian-Christian-Dao Synthesis  
Sophie Ling-chia Wei 魏伶珈 (Department of Translation Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong) 
Discussant: Daniel Canaris 
11:00   Tea time 
11:20   François Noël and the Dao 
Thierry Meynard, S.J. (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou) 
Discussant: Claudia von Collani
12:10   Preliminary Observations on Longobardo’s Linghun daoti shuo: Learning through Discord 
Daniel Canaris (School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney) 
Discussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei
13:00   Lunch 
Session 2: The Names of God in the Judeo-Christian Tradition 
Moderator: Olivier Lardinois, S.J. (Taipei Ricci Institute) 
14:00   The Name that is not the True Name. Naming the Absolute in Classical Jewish Thought 
Julien Darmon (Director of the Spirituality collection at Albin Michel) 
Discussant: Thomas Cui
14:50   From Elohim to YHWH : The Evolution of the Names of God in the Pentateuch 
Thomas Cui 崔寶臣 (Fujen St-Bellarmine Faculty of Theology) 
Discussant: Julien Darmon
15:40 Tea time  
16:10 The Logos and the « Way» in Early Christianity 
Michel Fedou, S.J. (Paris Loyola Faculty of Theology) 
Discussant: Benoît Vermander

NB: For each contribution, the allotment of time is as follows: the speaker first sums up his paper (15 minutes), feedback from a reader (15 minutes), reply to the feedback by the speaker (5 minutes), discussion (15 minutes). 

Day 2 (Thursday 8 May)  
Session 3: Daoism Through History 
Moderator: Edmund Ryden, SJ  
9:00   The Dao in Early Philosophical and Religious Texts 
John Lagerwey (Paris Ricci Institute) 
Discussant: Lee Feng-mao 李豐楙
9:50 老子《道德經》的內學及修道經驗、歷程的重建──結合道教經典的嘗試 
A Reconstruction of the Experience and History of Laozi's Inner Learning and Daoist Cultivation
Hsiao Chinming 蕭進銘 (Department of Religious Culture, Chen-li University)
Discussant:  Li Heshu 李龢書
10:40 Tea time 
11:10 中古時期道教之道論與至上神：兼論儒釋二教 
Daoist Theories of the Dao and its High Gods in the Early Medieval Period, with Reference to Confucianism and Buddhism
Li Heshu 李龢書 (Department of Religious Studies, Fujen University)
Discussant: Hsiao Chinming 蕭進銘 
12:00 大慈之道 
The Dao of Great Compassion
Lee Fengmao 李豐楙 (Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica)  
Discussant: John Lagerwey
12:50 Lunch 
14:00 行道謁帝：道士修齋的方法與目的 
Performing the Way and Going in Audience before the Lord: Goals and Methods of Daoist Ritual 
Chang Chaojan 張超然 (Department of Religious Studies, Fujen University) 
Discussant: Lin Chenyuan

14:50 奉道與修真：以當代台灣北部道士為例 
Worship of the Dao and Cultivation of Perfection among the Daoists of North Taiwan Today 
Lin Chenyuan 林振源 (Institute for the Study of Religion, Cheng-chih University)
Discussant: Chang Chaojan 
15:40 Tea time  
Session 4: The Dao in Neoconfucianism
Moderator: Lee Feng-mao (Academica Sinica) 
16:10 有軀殼的道：朱熹對學道的理解 
The Daoist Body: Zhu Xi’s Understanding of Learning the Way
Tsai Chihche 蔡至哲 (Institute of Modern History, Academica Sinica) 
Discussant: Yves Vendé

Day 3 (Friday 9 May)  
Session 5: Comparative Essays 
Moderator: John Lagerwey (Paris Ricci Institute) 
9:00 Godhead (Meister Eckhart) and Dao (Daoist philosophy): An Attempt at Dialogue and Synthesis 
Chan Tak-Kwong 陳德光 (Fujen St-Bellarmine Faculty of Theology) 
Discussant: Benoît Vermander
9:50 A Cross-Reading of the Daoodejing and the Pseudo-Dionysius 
Benoît Vermander, S.J. (Fudan University, Shanghai) 
Discussant: Chan Tak-Kwong
10:40 Tea Time
11:10 Analogy: A Point of Resonance between Knowledge and Self-Cultivation 
Yves Vendé, S.J. (Catholic University of Lille) 
Discussant: Edmund Ryden
12:00 Lunch
Session 6: Questions of Translation 
Moderator: Lin Chenyuan 林振源 (Institute for the Study of Religion, Chengchih University) 
13:30 17-19世紀歐洲對「道」的翻譯與詮釋初探 
A Preliminary Exploration of the Translation and Interpretation of "Dao" in 17th-19th Century Europe
Pan Feng-chuan 潘鳳娟 (Taiwan Normal University)
Discussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei 
14:20 The “Light” in Logos and Dao: Navigating through the Chinese Translations of John 1:1–18 
Goh Menghun 吳孟翰 (Taiwan Graduate School of Theology) 
Discussant: Michel Fédou
15:10 Tea time 
15:30 Final session: General Discussion 
Moderator: Benoît Vermander, S.J. (Fudan University, Shanghai) 

NB: 18:00 festive souper to thank all the invited speakers and staff members