Zhao Zichen zaoqi shenxue zhong de xianshi tianguo guan 趙紫宸早期神學中的現世天國觀 = A worldly kingdom of Heaven in T. C. Chao's early theology / by Zha Changping 查常平

https://ccspub.cc/jrcc/article/view/426

Published in Zhongguo jidujiao yanjiu 中國基督教研究 = Jounral of Research for Christiantiy in China, no.25 (2025): 1-20.

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Abstract:
本文以趙紫宸(1888-1979)早期（1925年底）所寫的《耶穌的人生哲學》等為文本依據，討論他神學早期以現世的理想世界為特徵的天國觀。文章最後指出，這種最終去除了彼岸、沒有超越於世界的天國觀，無意識地在中國教會裡呼應了同時代的非基督教運動。這不能不說是20世紀二、三十年代發生在趙紫宸個人神學思想史上的悲劇。
This paper discusses the conception of an ideal world present in T.C. Chao’s (Tsu Chen Chao) (1888-1979) early theological works, based mainly on the text Jesus’ Philosophy of Life(or, A New Interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount, written in late 1925). It concludes by pointing out that Chao’s view of a kingdom of heaven that ultimately eradicates the otherworld and does not transcend this world unconsciously echoes the Anti-Christian Movementwithin Chinese churches during the same period. This is, indeed, a tragedy in the development of T. C. Chao’s personal theological thought in the 1920s and 1930s.