当今中国城市里的加尔文主义公共神学

Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today

Alexander Chow ； 慕溪(Mu Xi)

《秉烛：汉语公共神学国际学刊》 第1卷1期(創刊號) (2024/12) Pp. 98-111

https://doi.org/10.30236/IJCPT.202412_1(1).0008

摘要

中国大陆的基督教常被描绘为社会边缘群体的宗教。然而，自20世纪90年代以来，随着城市化的快速发展，越来越多的城市知识分子开始归信新教。本文选取了几位城市知识分子基督徒的代表人物，探讨了他们的神学及对约翰．加尔文及其追随者的教义的使用。本文将证明，他们对于参与公共领域的讨论表现出强烈的神学兴趣，涵盖的主题包括法治、宪政主义以及公民社会。对于本文所提及的代表性人物，虽然人们通常将他们称为“中国新加尔文主义者”或“基督教公共知识分子”，但我认为，将此日益壮大的重要群体称为中国公共神学家可能更为恰当。

關鍵字

加尔文主义 ； 中国新教 ； 家庭教会 ； 公共知识分子 ； 公共神学 ； 城市基督教

並列摘要

Christianity in mainland China has often been characterized as a religion for the marginalized of society. However, since the 1990s, there has been a growing phenomenon within the country's burgeoning urban metropolises with an increasing number of urban intellectuals converting to Protestantism. This article explores the theology of several representatives of these urban intellectual Christians who make use of the teachings of John Calvin and his followers. This article will show that there is a strong theological interest in engaging in the public sphere around subjects like the rule of law, constitutionalism and a civil society. Although the representatives cited in this article have been described as 'Chinese New Calvinists' or 'Christian public intellectuals', it is proposed here that a more appropriate understanding of this growing and significant group is as Chinese public theologians.

並列關鍵字

Chinese Protestantism ； House Church ； Public Intellectuals ； Public Theology ； Urban Christianity