1988年1月13日,中華民國總統蔣經國在任內因病去世,副總統李登輝依照憲法繼任第七任總統。十二年間,李登輝以非暴力、不流血、和平的方式,推動六次修憲工程,尋求體制內民主改革,解構國民黨的「威權統治」。 1991年,李登輝透過第一屆國民大會修憲,廢止「動員戡亂臨時條款」,終止中華民國與中華人民共和國之間的戰爭狀態,開啟兩岸的新關係。1996年,更推動總統、副總統全民投票直選,完成台灣民主化。台灣民主化被稱為「寧靜革命」、又稱「台灣經驗」。國際政治學家杭廷頓(Samuel P. Huntington)讚譽「台灣經驗」是第三波民主化(The Third Wave)的典範。 基督教信仰是李登輝決策形成的關鍵,台灣民主化歷程是李登輝活出「基督在內的李登輝」、「我是不是我的我」、「不是李登輝的李登輝」的信仰確據,型塑新約聖經保羅加拉太書的神學論述與實踐案例。 本論文的旨趣在於研究基督信仰脈絡下的李登輝與「寧靜革命」,呈現「寧靜革命」的神學視域。
Lee Teng-Hui, the Vice President of Republic of China(ROC) accomplishing President Chiang Ching-Kuo’s seventh presidential term’s according to the constitution of Republic of China because President Chiang unexpectedly passed away on the 13th day of January in 1988. Then, the following 12 years(1988~2000), Lee Teng-hui promoted the six times Constitutional Amendments by non-violence, without bloodshed and in peace to seek the democratic reform within the KMT's system, and to deconstruct the “Authoritarian Rule” of KMT(Chinese Nationalist Party). Lee Teng-Hui abolished the “Temporary Terms of the Rebellion” through Constitutional Amendment at the first session of the National Assembly, in order to terminating that Civil War between the Republic of China(ROC) and the People's Republic of China(PRC), and opening a new relationship on both sides in 1991. Afterwards, he further promoted that Direct Presidential Election in 1996 to achieve the completion of Taiwan's Democratization—be called a "Quiet Revolution", and also known as the "Taiwan Experience". Professor Samuel P. Huntington, International Political Scientist who appreciated that “Taiwan Experience is a paradigm of Democratization of The Third Wave”. The Christian Faith is the key to form the decision-making of Lee Teng-Hui, the course of Taiwan's Democratization is that Lee Teng-Hui revealed a certain of what his faith of “Inside of Christ’s Lee Teng-Hui”, “I am not who I am”, and “It’s not Lee Teng-Hui’s Lee Teng-Hui” for shaping the theological discourses and practical cases of Paul’s Galatians of New Testament. The purport of this dissertation is to study Lee Teng-Hui who beneath the Christian Faith Context with "Quiet Revolution", and for showing the theological horizon of "Quiet Revolution".