“上帝之死”时代的终极关怀

Ultimate concern in the period of "death of God"

在人类社会世俗化的进程中,永恒的幸福始终是人们不懈追求的终极目的,而实现这一目的则是对人类终极关怀和终极意义的找寻和追求。随着科学和理性的发展,人类逐渐废黜了传统基督教信仰中一直以来作为人类终极关怀的超验的上帝,甚至高呼"上帝死了"。然而在完全世俗化的今天,在"上帝之死"时代,人类应该如何寻求自身存在的终极意义和终级关怀?美国新教神学家加布里尔.瓦哈尼安独特地从宗教—文化的角度提出人类应该通过文化的革命,超越"上帝之死"的文化困境,关注"现世",追求作为"此世超越性"之典范的耶稣基督,从而追求人类存在的终极意义。

In the process of the secularization of human society, eternal happiness is the ultimate goal that man has been pursuing all the time. To realize this ultimate goal means to seek for the ultimate concern and meaning of human beings. With the development of human science and rationality, man has gradually ceased to believe in the transcendental God, who is always the ultimate concern of man in traditional Christian faith. They even cried that God is dead, But in today＇ s completely secular society and the period of ＂death of God＂, how can man pursue the ultimate meaning and concern of his existence？ American theologian, Gabriel Vahanian, uniquely proposes, from the aspect of religion - culture, that man should pursue the ultimate meaning of human existence by surpassing the cultural predicament of ＂ death of God＂ through a cultural revolution, paying attention to this world and pursuing the image of Jesus Christ who is the model of this world＇ s transcendence.