上帝的主权作为信仰的中心:预定和神圣的眷顾

<正>加尔文神学的核心可以总括为三个词:"荣耀归与神(Glory toGod)"。这三个词屹立在他的《基督宗教训导》篇末,这可以看作对"Soli Deo Gloria"——"荣耀独归上帝"这一教理的宽泛注解。加尔文全部的神学思想,并其引导教会的行动,都可以被理解为上帝的主权这个原则的进展。     

试论葛洪的道教教义思想及其历史影响

道教的教理、教义有一个历史的发展过程,历代高道大德都对此做出了贡献,这其中就包括东晋时期的葛洪.下面,我们来对此做一个简单讨论. 一、葛洪以"玄"释"道",发展了先秦<老>、<庄>的形上学思想 葛洪在道教义理建构方面的一个重要贡献,就是论述了道教由人事通向天道的实践之路.道作为终极的本体,是不可言说的.     

论韩愈的"《易》奇而法"

本文以韩愈<进学解>里"<易>奇而法"这句断语为切入点,结合其文学创作与文学理论,界定他所谓的<易>"奇"有什么具体含义,再看看他是如何取"法"于<易>的,从而深入探讨他对<周易>的独特解读与接受.     

约翰神学的语言观与时间观

任何宗教语言的特征是它的指使性.本文依据约翰神学的文献,即<约翰福音>、<约翰壹书>、<约翰贰书>、<约翰叁书>、<启示录>指出:约翰神学在以下几个方面表现出宗教语言的指使性特征:"我是"的宣告、耶稣的对话性言说、吁请的祈祷;而它在时间观上的长时段的末世论的涵义意味着:作者约翰强调时间中的永恒与现在的关系,换言之,他认为永恒中内含现在、而现在中却内含着永恒.这种语言观、时间观,和约翰神学的以人与上帝的公义关系为基础的神义论的正义论相关,和它把基督信仰看成是上帝之言成为肉身的历史事件与耶稣的肉身成为上帝之言的神学事件的信仰相关.     

《焦氏易林》与汉代宗教文化构建

<焦氏易林>是研究汉代宗教文化构建、演变发展的重要史料.本文从"天人感应"的神学观念、神灵的世俗化与英雄的神格化、神仙体系的无序化、长生不老的成仙追求、西王母民间信仰的兴盛发展五个方面,具体分析了<易林>所体现出的汉代宗教文化思想特征.     

"神圣"之永恒魅力--对《论神圣》一书的解读

奥托的<论神圣>在宗教和宗教研究中具有十分重要的地位和价值,本文主要展示了该书的逻辑理路:非理性的"神秘"是"神圣"的内核,"神秘"之被图式化揭示了它以特殊的方式向理性因素和其它感受"开放",由此描绘出一幅非理性纬线和理性经线交织的"神圣"观念和宗教图景,这可以说是一种和谐宗教观.在此基础之上,又阐发了"神圣"观念的现代意义.     

"尼西亚信经"系列(二)"我们信……"

<尼西亚信经>以"我们信……"开始,然后申明大公教会对天父上帝、耶稣基督、圣灵的信仰."信"是基督徒生命的关键,因为我们是基于上帝的恩典,透过信仰为我们死而复活的主耶稣基督,让我们得以称义(罗1:17;3:26,28),与上帝和好(弗2章),我们可以得救,得着永生(约3:16).对上帝及耶稣基督的信仰是基督徒安身立命的基础.在谈论各教义课题之先,要先谈谈什么是信仰."信仰"一词有两种用法.按第一种用法,信仰是名词,指所信的内容,可说是基督教信仰的教义.基督徒相信上帝创造世界,相信耶稣基督拯救我们脱离罪恶和死亡的权势,相信圣灵在教会和信徒生命中工作等,都是信仰的内容.教会聚会中的唱诗、讲道、祷告、礼仪,以至教会提供的各种教导,以至神学工作者的著作等,都涉及以不同方式表达的信仰内容,而<尼西亚信经>就是对基督教信仰内容的权威性表白.信仰的内容乃是教会对信仰的对象--三一上帝--的理解.     

重构象数:《太玄》的赞《易》之道

"重构象数"是<太玄>赞<易>的主要方法,扬雄由此开创了"以三为本"的玄数系统、"象应于数"的取象法则,其学说渊源主要为"老子生成说"、"天文历法说"、"自然音律说"、"阴阳五行说".这一"综合性创新"的象数构建,注重<太玄>象数研究的宋明思想家以"是否合<易>"为标准,对其评判也是毁誉参半,赞同者认为<玄><易>"道同法异",互为补充;批判者则立足<玄><易>义例差异,责<玄>缺陷.     

日本佛教与基督教对话的历史和成果——以东西宗教交流学会为中心

1980年以"东西方宗教的相遇"为主题的国际会议在美国夏威夷大学举行,以此为契机,东西宗教交流学会于1982年在京都成立。该学会始终秉承着一种探求精神,即共同致力于探求可以让佛教与基督教同时成立的理论依据。因此,可以说泷泽克己的"以马内利哲学"、八木诚一的神学思想、京都学派的思想一直是学会整体的思想基础。本学会的共同语言并非单一的佛教教义或基督教神学语言,而是一种宗教哲学。此外,在召开国际学术会议方面,东西宗教交流学会也曾在美国佛教基督教学会国际大会上设立分会场,做出了应有的贡献。     

"大开圆解"解读

本文依据智顗所著<摩诃止观>,解读天台"圆顿止观"的根本加行--"大开圆解"的实践义涵,及其正解圆开的教授方法.力图融和"教理"与"观行"两个角度,充分尊重佛教的特质,以佛教自身的实践原则,以智顗的止观教学法解读其所教授的止观法门.智顗止观加行理论及实践对重建当代中国汉传佛教道次第系统具有重要价值.     

Wittgenstein and the Dualism of the Inner and the Outer

A dualism characteristic of modern philosophy is the conception of the inner and the outer as two independently intelligible domains. Wittgenstein’s attack on this dualism contains deep insights. The main insight (excavated from §304 and §293 of the Philosophical Investigations) is this: our sensory consciousness is deeply shaped by language and this shaping plays a fundamental role in the etiology of the dualism. I locate this role in the learning of a sensation-language (as described in §244), by showing that this learning is, under another aspect, the incision of language, namely the infliction of cuts upon certain natural-primitive unities between the inner and the outer. These cuts, driven by powerful forces, eventually harden into an entrenched division between the inner and the outer, thereby providing a constant soil for the dualism. That this dualism is rooted in the very learning of a language is cause for ambivalence about language.     

Peter McHugh and Analysis: The One and the Many, the Universal and the Particular, the Whole and the Part

This paper takes the passing of Peter McHugh as an occasion to examine the intellectual development of his work. The paper is mainly focused on the product of his collaboration with his colleague and friend, Alan Blum. As such, it addresses the tradition of social inquiry, Analysis, which they cofounded. It traces the influence of Harold Garfinkel’s Ethnomethodology on McHugh and on the beginning of Analysis. The collaboration with Blum is examined through a variety of coauthored works but most especially in the two books On the Beginning of Social Inquiry (1974) and Self Reflection in the Arts and Sciences (1984). It also examines the relation of his independent writing before 1974, and since 1984 to the expression of the tradition of inquiry as exemplified in those two texts. The paper builds on some interview material with Peter McHugh and reflects on the influence of Peter the teacher as well as the theorist McHugh. Most especially, through its engagement with this material, it seeks to exemplify the dialectic and living nature of the program called Analysis.     

Yin and Yang,and the Hot and the Cold

Yin and Yang are important concepts in ancient Chinese philosophy.Western scholars have become more familiar with these two concepts recently,but for a long time almost no one considered comparing them with their own tradition such as the ancient Greek philosophy,and especially with the ideas of the Hot and the Cold in Presocratic philosophy.In this paper,I make an attempt to do exactly that,and especially make a detailed comparison between the thoughts of two ancient thinkers:Laozi and Anaximander.I discuss the thought of Yin and Yang in Laozi-who was the earliest philosopher making use of the concepts Yin and Yang-to express his cosmological thought in ancient Chinese philosophy.Comparatively,I discuss the ideas of the Hot and the Cold in Anaximander,the earlier among Presocratic philosophers referring to the Hot and the Cold as fundamental concepts used to establish his cosmological system.Through this comparison,I indicate that the similarity between ancient Chinese and Western traditions is far more significant than what people are used to imagining.     

经济全球化与东西方宗教

本文认为,由于科技的高度发展,信息网络技术的普及,经济全球化已成为不可逆转的发展趋势;而经济全球化必然带来东西方宗教的种种变化。作者从传统宗教的复兴、民族宗教的冲突、宗教与政治的结缘。宗教的普世化与本色化、新兴宗教的异军突起及东西方宗教的交流与融合等６个方面分析了当前东西方宗教的这种发展趋势。     

Glossolalia and the psychology of the self and narcissism

A survey of the religious and psychological literature on glossolalia (speaking in tongues) reviews the various ways that have been used to try to understand this fascinating practice. At the present time an impasse has been reached: glossolalists can no longer be viewed as suffering from psychopathological disorders or from sociological deprivation. Insights derived from the psychology of the self and narcissism, as presented in the works of Heinz Kohut and D.W. Winnicott, are used to suggest new approaches to understand glossolalia.     

Belief and the problem of Ulysses and the sirens

While self-contained, this paper is a sequel to my Belief and the Will (1984); see theBibliographical Note at the end of this paper for a survey of the relevant literature since then and supplementary references. I have meanwhile benefitted greatly from Brad Armendt's commentary and Richard Foley's How should future opinion affect current opinion?, both presented at a symposium at the APA Central Division, April 1993.     

Spontaneity and Self-Consciousness in the Groundwork and the B-Critique

ABSTRACT

According to some influential readings of the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the view presented there of the kind of spontaneity we are conscious of through theoretical reason and the significance of such self-consciousness is irremediably at odds with the Critical theory, and thus roundly and rightly rejected in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. This paper argues, on the contrary, that the Groundwork can be read as articulating for the first time the account of self-consciousness and spontaneity that Kant goes on to develop in the B-Critique, especially the B-Transcendental Deduction.