Title
Perfect Man's Model (Quanren Juyue) by Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff
Year/Period
1836
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Object size: 24.4 x 13.7 x 0.6 cm
Accession No.
2017-00227
Collection of
全人矩矱 (Quanren Juyue), which translates roughly as "The Perfect Man’s Model", was written by Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, a German protestant missionary who was fluent in Chinese. It was printed in 1836, under the publishing arm of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The publication was a religious tract that cast Jesus as the “the Perfect Man’s model”, with an attempt to integrate him within the concept of the Confucian ideal. It is divided into five chapters: into five books, dealing respectively with Unfeigned Virtue’, Spiritual Instruction, The Saviour, Explanation of the Law, Theory of Prayer’, and The Doctrine of Jesus True and Self-evident.
