晚清乡土社会天主教民的恩宠信仰

A Study on Chinese Rural Romanists'Belief in Grace from 1840 to 1911

文章以晚清乡土天主教民的恩宠信仰为视点,试图从恩宠的逻辑、恩宠的内容、恩宠的实现三个方面来探讨教民对恩宠教义的吸纳过程,从而提出,果报观念、神功崇拜等乡土文化资源是转化与安置恩宠教义的建构力量,它决定了教民的恩宠信仰虽然采纳了天主教的符号、语言与仪式,却与传统的文化资源有着千丝万缕的联系。

The article analyzes the process of Chinese rural Romanists＇ absorbing the teaching of Grace in late Imperial Qing from the following three aspects： the logic of Grace, the fulfillment of Grace and the outcome of Grace. The article advances that Chinese traditional cultures and beliefs played a constructing role in Chinese rural Romanists＇ absorbing the teaching of Grace. The symbols, words and rituals of the Roman Catholic were connected with Chinese traditional culture and belief conscientiously or spontaneously.