曖昧的批判與接續－論民國“耶穌傳”寫作實踐

Ambiguous Criticism: On the Writing of "Lives of Jesus" in Republican China

褚瀟白(CHU Xiaobai)

《基督教文化學刊》 48期 (2022/12) Pp. 84-110

並列摘要

Following the May Fourth New Culture Movement, liberal Chinese Christian intellectuals were keen to write their own "Life of Jesus." This article places the phenomenon in a global perspective and argues, based on the focus on the character of Jesus in Zhao Zichen and Wu Leichuan's portrayals, that the reason for the boom in writings on "Life of Jesus" was a responsive effort to get rid of foreign missionary guardianship and to realize the cultural autonomy of Chinese believers. In these works, the Chinese authors drew their ideological resources from European liberal theology and Confucian moral traditions and reorganized them in the name of Christianity to portray Jesus as the savior of the nation. Writing on "Lives of Jesus" displayed the responses of liberal Christians to the central discourses of enlightenment and national salvation in the May Fourth and Anti-Christian Movements and revealed the complex relationship between their conformity to mainstream discourses and their application of traditional resources.

並列關鍵字

Lives of Jesus ； ZHAO Zichen ； WU Leichuan ； "Character, China's Salvation"