與台灣“端午節慶”連結的聖餐禮俗－一個長老教會本土觀點

人們日常生活禮俗可概分為下列二種：一是「宗教祭典」(religious rites)，一是「民間禮俗」(folk festivals)。民間禮俗又可概分為「歲時禮俗」(calendricalfestivals)與「生命禮俗」(life-cycle festivals)。前者可說是「族羣性」的生命禮俗；後者則是指個人所歷經的「個人性」的生、長、婚、老、死等生命歷程。今日基督教會面對台灣的「歲時禮俗」時，可從二個積極的態度來思考：1)是「文化情境化」的努力，讓承受漢文化的台灣歲時禮俗本土化，有自己的故事傳述；2)是「神學情境化」的努力，從有台灣自己故事的歲時禮俗來思考信仰象徵涵意，並與基督信仰產生關聯。本篇論文是筆者針對台灣「端午」歲時禮俗的「文化情境化」嘗試，然後再以基督教傳統的「聖餐」禮俗來與「端午」歲時禮俗作「神學處境化」的信仰關聯，提出處境化中的神學思考及解答。

關鍵字

長老教會；端午節；聖餐；歲時禮俗；生命禮俗；處境化神學

並列摘要

Rituals observed by people in their ordinary lives are categorized either as religious rites or folk festivals. Moreover, folk festivals can be divided into calendrical festivals and life-cycle rituals. The former can be considered as a social ritualizing of life; the latter, instead refer to the stages of an individual's existence: birth, adulthood, marriage, aging and death. In today's context, the Christian response to the Taiwan calendrical festivals can positively proceed in two directions of contextualization: cultural and theological. Theological contextualization implies a rethinking of the faith and symbolic meaning of Taiwanese festival stories and their relation to Christian faith. This paper focuses on the cultural contextualization of the Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan. It further attempts a contextual theology based on the questions and answers suggested by the faith link between the festival and the Christian tradition of the Eucharist.

並列關鍵字

Presbyterian ； Dragon Boat Festival ； Eucharist ； annual/periodical festivals ； life-cycle festivals ； contextualizing theology

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Ford, David F.(ed.)(1997).The Modern Theologians.Cambridge:Blackwell.

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