Retracing Marco Polos steps over the continent and Zheng Hes voyages across the oceans, the OBOR initiative is pushing China back to the forefront of civilizational engagements.A prospect that posits opportunities for growth as well as risks of conflicts.This paper will explore the Confucianinclusivemodel for civilizational co-existence by way of a comparative analysis of two opposing alternatives, namely the sacred and secular model.Monotheistic traditions such as Christianity regard themselves as special recipients of divine revelations, as such deem other traditions as inferior.And imbued with a sense of sacred duty, the church seeks to Christianize in order to save the world.Historically, this theological vision underpinned the Christian West encounter with the world, leading to antagonistic clashes between civilizations.Appalled by religion inspired atrocities, modernity turned to secularism to sustain order.While religious co-existence is maintained, the secular model is nevertheless discriminative against the sacred realm.Anchored on dualism,modernity elevates science over religion, reason over sense, with the former dominating the public dominion and the latter relegated to the private sphere.Like Christianity, Confucians also regard itself as an Apex civilization but they never sought to Confucianize the world.Instead they uphold a religiously diverse milieu.This, I explain, is due to ancient Chinas inclusive cosmology that recognizes the moral efficacy of other traditions.On this account and like modernity, the Confucian world is a multireligious one.Yet unlike the former,the Chinese do not subsume the sacred to the secular.Rather they preserve a holistic existence where science and religion, reason and sense are held in constructive synthesis.This phenomenon, I explain stems from the Chinese organic cosmology where all things are regarded as ultimately one.In sum, this paper argues that the Confucian tradition, founded on a unified cosmology,advances a framework that allows for a more open and peaceable intercivilizational co-existence.