Round 1: Tossup 2

A book by Lionel M. Jensen argues that this tradition’s modern image was “manufactured” by thinkers like Philippe Couplet, who praised it in his translations of its works. Pierre Bayle interpreted this tradition as “positive atheism” in an early modern debate over its relationship to Spinozism. François Quesnay’s admiration of this tradition inspired a nickname for him that references it. Pope (15[1])Clement XI forbade missionaries who praised this philosophical tradition over others from using translations of its concepts to refer to (*) heaven and the Christian God. Accommodation (10[1])of this philosophical tradition’s ceremonies by Matteo Ricci sparked a “Rites Controversy.” For 10 points, Jesuit missionaries sought to match Christian concepts to what philosophical tradition’s ideas of Tiān and Shàngdì, found in the Analects? ■END■

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