Luther's Trinitarian Hermeneutic and the Old Testament

In this study, the author shows that Luther's trinitarian understanding is shaped by the royal Psalms' dialogical model as well as informed by a hermeneutics that moors a trinitarian semantics in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. The analysis concentrates on Luther's translation into German of two Hebrew names for God and of passages classically associated with the trinitarian doctrine (Psalm 110:1; Psalm 2:2.12). The result is a trinitarian structure of transparency. The text's syntax, narrative and direct speech mirror literally the transparency of the divine essence through the distinguishing characteristics of each trinitarian person.     

Old Testament and Church Ministries in Two Ecumenical Dialogues

Abstract: To understand any church institution as founded by Jesus, one must take account of its relationship to his work of bringing the Old Testament revelation and its institutions to their eschatological realization. A sample of the work of recent ecumenical dialogues (BEM and the international Lutheran– Roman Catholic document on church and justification) shows that their discussions of church institutions have failed to do this adequately. This failure has complicated the efforts at unity to which these dialogues intend to contribute. Attention to the Old Testament roots of church institutions can help ecumenical ecclesiology to focus better on some important issues.     

读《旧约》两则

一、上帝的悔恨 上帝是全知全能的吗?上帝的悔恨使我发生了疑问. 首先,上帝未曾料到自己所造的蛇会诱惑夏娃偷吃智慧果,使人类生起恶念,因而后悔造人于地.其次,以色列人从埃及返回巴勒斯坦迦南地,摩西的继承人约书亚死后,经过一段士师时期,以色列民众要求建立国王以共同对敌.先知撒母耳和上帝勉强立扫罗为国王,但是内心极不愿意.因为他们深知,立起国王,必然减弱民众对上帝的信奉.因此,他们刁难他.由于扫罗"违背命令",上帝对撒母耳说:"我立扫罗为王,我后悔了".上帝又一次追悔了.第三,经过王国时期,分国时期,北国以色列灭亡后,南国犹大进入晚期.由于犹大人不听警教,上帝便召北方兴起的巴比伦王将犹大国王约雅敬推翻.不久,上帝又"后悔"了.他劝犹大民众不要怕巴比伦王,并声明"要拯救你们脱离他的手".但是,上帝的诺言没有实现,犹大国到底被巴比伦灭亡了.耶路撒冷彻底被毁.     

本教圣地黄龙风景名胜区的藏文化考察

在藏文化的视野中,黄龙是一方秀丽的山川,是一块宗教的圣地,是一座文化的宝库.黄龙藏语全称叫林青夏晓东日,简称东日,意思是东方的白螺圣山即简称白螺圣山.黄龙是本教母续二十五所道场中的一所,它的主人是一对被神格化了的夫妇,他们都是藏人保家护教之神.黄龙成为藏人心中圣地的历史可以追溯到四千年前的本祖辛饶米奥时代.多少年来,无论是历代本教大师还是普通信徒无不对黄龙的魅力增添无限的遇想,演绎许多美丽的传说.随着旅游事业的发展黄龙正面临着前所未有的机遇和挑战.     

Sense and Senselessness in Religion: Reflections on Creation of the Sacred

Creation of the Sacred posits that ‘religion makes sense’. In so doing, it underestimates ‘the negative’. Its emphasis on the scientific basis for tradition, here called ‘scientistic traditionalism’, underestimates the role of critique and the function of dissent in the dialectics of tradition-building. For this reason, it also cannot ‘make sense’ of monotheism, which, in its many traditions, positions itself in opposition to mere biological imperatives.     

Luther’s Trinitarian Hermeneutic and the Old Testament

In this study, the author shows that Luther’s trinitarian understanding is shaped by the royal Psalms’ dialogical model as well as informed by a hermeneutics that moors a trinitarian semantics in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. The analysis concentrates on Luther’s translation into German of two Hebrew names for God and of passages classically associated with the trinitarian doctrine (Psalm 110:1; Psalm 2:2.12). The result is a trinitarian structure of transparency. The text’s syntax, narrative and direct speech mirror literally the transparency of the divine essence through the distinguishing characteristics of each trinitarian person.