{"id":7337,"date":"2025-05-27T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/?p=7337"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:12:10","slug":"matteo-ricci-a-bridge-between-east-and-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/matteo-ricci-a-bridge-between-east-and-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Ricci: a bridge between East and West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the heart of Jesuit educational experience lies the ability to cross boundaries &#8211; geographical, cultural, and religious. <strong>Matteo Ricci<\/strong> (1552\u20131610) is one of the most emblematic figures of this spirit. <strong>A missionary, scientist, and humanist, he was the first European to deeply enter Chinese culture, not with the intent to &#8220;conquer,&#8221; but with the more radical aim of understanding and being transformed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Encounter as a method<\/strong><br>Arriving in Macao in 1582, Matteo Ricci took nearly twenty years to reach Beijing. During that time, he studied the Chinese language, dressed as a Confucian scholar, immersed himself in the classics, and proposed a form of Christianity that dialogued with China\u2019s millenary wisdom. His mission was never colonizing, but educational in the deepest sense: attentive to context, respectful of others, and rooted in genuine relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education as a bridge<\/strong><br>Ricci brought not only religion, but also science, mathematics, and geography. His world maps, astronomical instruments, and writings became channels of mutual esteem. Knowledge, in this light, is not a tool of power, but a path to communion. Thus, Ignatian pedagogy becomes a culture of dialogue, where teaching primarily means learning from the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A living legacy<\/strong><br>In today&#8217;s context &#8211; marked by identity fractures and closed-mindedness &#8211; Matteo Ricci\u2019s witness rings out as a pressing invitation: to educate is to build bridges, to recognize the other in their diversity, to seek together a truth greater than any individual. This is the heart of the educational proposal of Jesuit schools: a gaze that combines rootedness and openness, critical thinking and faith, excellence and service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the heart of Jesuit educational experience lies the ability to cross boundaries &#8211; geographical, cultural, and religious. Matteo Ricci (1552\u20131610) is one of the most emblematic figures of this spirit. A missionary, scientist, and humanist, he was the first European to deeply enter Chinese culture, not with the intent to &#8220;conquer,&#8221; but with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"istituto":[],"partner":[],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7338,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions\/7338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"istituto","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istituto?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"partner","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}