作為上帝意旨的世俗主義－賀拉斯．卡倫對多元主義即終極關懷的“希伯來式”理解

Secularism as the Will of God: Horace Kallen's ＂Hebraic＂ Understanding of Pluralism as an Ultimate Concern

羅隨緣(Mark LARRIMORE) ； 陳龍(CHEN Long)

《基督教文化學刊》 44期 (2020/12) Pp. 2-24

並列摘要

Tillich and Frye were at work at a time when religion was being reimagined in secular ways in the west. This essay looks at their contemporary Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974), forgotten but recently recovered, who argued for a religious secularism. Kallen's ideas were couched in the language of American democracy but have deeper roots in his experience as a Jewish American and are anchored in his pioneering celebration of cultural pluralism. Kallen thought it important to recognize the ＂religious＂ character of our most important commitments, and articulated an ideal of freedom in diversity with clear affinities to Tillich's ideas about ultimate concern, but perhaps more aware of the dangers of a dominant culture. This essay traces Kallen's ideas to his formative category of ＂Hebraism,＂ an awareness of human existential struggle, finitude and plurality which he thought preeminently articulated in the biblical ＂Book of Job,＂ and ends with an assessment of its continued relevance.

並列關鍵字

ultimate concern ； pluralism ； Hebraism ； pragmatism ； Horace Kallen