文社:二0年代基督教文字本色化的努力
學年 77
學期 1
發表日期 1988-12-15
作品名稱 文社:二0年代基督教文字本色化的努力
作品名稱(其他語言) Wen She Monthly, 1925-1928 Indigenization of Christianity in China
著者 王成勉; Wang, Chen-Main Peter
作品所屬單位 淡江大學歷史學系
出版者
會議名稱 基督教與中國本色化國際學術研討會
會議地點 臺北市, 臺灣
摘要 Many scholars of Chinese church history are aware that there was a rising tide of indigenization of Christianity in China during the 1920s that came primarily from the stimuli of rising Nationalism and the subsequent anti-Christian movement. Under these adverse circumstances Chinese Christians responded with an unprecedented movement of the indigenization that spread through and was supported by many Christian churches and groups all over China. The Wen She or "Literary Society" was the single most active and influential group to advocate indigenization. Although it ceased in mid-1928 because of budget difficulties, the Wen She had played such a unique and outstanding role that it permanently captured a place in the history of Christianity in China. The full title of the Wen She was Chung-hua chi-tu- chiao wen-tzu shin-yeh ts'u-chin she (The Chinese Christian Society for Promoting Literary Service.) The Wen She was organized jointly by Christian writers and several foreign missionaries who thought that one reason that hindered the spread of Christianity was that the instruments of preaching---language and words---were not yet indigenized. They therefore decided to introduce Christian culture through a Sinicized style of writing. To that end, they began in 1925 to publish the Wen She Monthly and other pamphlets and books to spread their views. This project attempts to discuss the ideas, attitudes, and practical measures of indigenization proposed by the Wen She. The methodological strategy will be a three-fold approach: first, by analyzing the contents of the Wen She Monthly and its other publications and comparing these ideas of indigenization with those of other periods; secondly, to study the major members of the Wen She, including their thought, backgrounds and positions in church circles; thirdly, to investigate the relationship between the Wen She and other church groups especially in light of the contention between the magazine and conservative group. The significance of this project is to explore Christian affairs through a new approach. In the past, especially in recent years, some scholars (such as Tatsuro Yamamoto, Jessie G. Lutz, Murray A. Rubinstein, Cha Shih- chieh and Lu Shih-chiang) have begun to pay attention to the anti-Christian movement of the period. However, few of these scholars have done research on the Christian response to such antagonism, especially on the issue of the indigenization of Christianity, which is an equally important topic to understand the social, political and religious development of the Christian church in China. This project, mainly based on Chinese Christian publications and documents, attempts to concentrate on the Chinese Christian response to the issue of the indigenization in a period of intellectual ferment and turbulence.
關鍵字 文社;基督教;宗教史;本色化;教會運動;中國;Wen She;Christianity;Religious History;Indigenization;Church Movement;China
語言 zh_TW
收錄於
會議性質 國際
校內研討會地點
研討會時間 19881215~19881217
通訊作者
國別 TWN
公開徵稿 Y
出版型式 紙本
出處 基督教與中國本色化國際學術研討會論文集,頁525-543
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