从确定的正典出发：比较经学视野下的现代儒学重建 [Starting from the Canon: The Reconstruction of Modern Confucianism from the view of Comparative Scripture ]

Abstract

Since the nineteenth century Biblical studies, one of the key areas of Western religious studies and the humanities, has been dominated by the modern scientific method. It introduced the scientific and the humanist spirit of modern Western science into the most conservative religious academic areas. However, it also brought about a separation between scripture studies and faith, a separation between the academic “descriptive task” and the “constructive task” of religious faith. A result was that academic biblical research lost its constructive purpose in the name of science. In the late sixties and early seventies of the last century, the American Biblical scholar, B.S. Childs proposed a “Canonical approach” to meet the crisis. After Childs, in the canonical context, with the influence of Marxist sociology, the Western Biblical and religious studies became much more concerned with the needs of society and inter-religious dialogues. In a sense, a Marxist ideological revolution took place outside a Marxist context. The “Canonical approach” also provides a method for the reconstruction of modern Chinese culture in the wake of collapsed Confucianism and the May Fourth Movement.