天上的“传记书”——基督教文化视野中的西方传记文学

The Book of Life in Haven:A Christian Perspective on the Western Biography

西方传记文学并非源自基督教文化,但基督教文化对西方传记的发展和自身传统的形成有重要的影响。基督教经典文献是西方古典传记的重要成就之一,也蕴含着丰富的、将在后世充分展开的传记传统。"圣徒传记"是中世纪西方传记文学的最主要形式。在西方传记走向现代化发展的过程中,基督教文化是重要的推动力,并为传记解释提供灵感。借助基督教神学解释学视野,某些传记理论问题的结构和层次也能够得到更清楚的考察。

Though western life writing didn＇ t derive from Christian culture, Christian culture had deep influence on the development of it and helped much to the formation of its traditions. The Christian classics were among the great achievements of the ancient classics of life writings, and consisted important traditions which would unfold more fully in later centuries. Christian hagiography was the most important type of life writing in the Middle Ages. In the course of the modernization of life writing, Christian culture was the important driving force and provided inspirations for auto/biographical interpretation. Some issues of auto/biographical poetics can be understood better in view of theological hermeneutics.