“Logos”的界限——基督教传统中的理性与神秘

The Boundary of Logos:Reason and Mysticism in the Christian Tradition

在西方思想研究领域,尤其是基督教文化研究中,"理性和信仰"之辩是一个经常被提及的话题。从2世纪拉丁教父德尔图良(Tertullianus)"雅典和耶路撒冷何干?"的发问,到19世纪教会史家哈纳克(Adolf von Harnack)的"去希腊化"(De-Hellenization),基督教思想史中一直贯穿着理性和信仰的紧张。在主张"祛魅"的现代社会,理性和信仰的对立已成为一种思维惯例和常态。

The dialectic of faith and reason has always been the driving force of Western thinking ever since the Christian encounter with Greek culture.The tension becomes more obvious in modernity dominated by a philosophy of subjectivity which delimits a determinate understanding of knowledge and rationality.The conventional oppositions between natural and revealed theology,dogmatic and mystical theology,result from the paradigm shift in truth and knowledge.By tracing its origin back to Platonism,this paper focuses on the grammar of mystical theology in Christian tradition,aiming to show the boundary of human reason and language in the face of the transcendent God and the unknowability.As a stance against the self-centered reason and conceptual idols,mysticism preserves the transcendence of the absent God in the post-metaphysical milieu and opens a space for thinking the unknowable.