宗教伦理的历史担当和现代命运——以基督教伦理为主要范型的考察

The Historical Mission of Religious Ethics and its Modern Role:A Study of Christian Ethics as the Main Paradigm

宗教伦理是一种宗教与伦理相交叉、信仰与道德相结合的价值秩序,以宗教信仰为依据对人的存在及其行为方式进行道德建构和道德评判。这种价值生存秩序在传统社会居于主导地位,使得整个社会状态和人的心灵世界因获得意义根基而稳定有序。进入现代社会以后,整个秩序的根基不再是超自然的神义,而是世俗的理性化尺规,在分享自由化和多元化生存的深处,人心道义秩序和社会伦理秩序的根基变得非常脆弱。因此,在当代道德重建的过程中,关注宗教伦理的维度将为我们提供一份不可或缺的资源。

Religious ethics is a value order of the connection between both of religion and ethics,and of beliefs and morality. It offers the moral construction and judgment to human existence and its behavior based on religious beliefs. This value order of life dominated traditional societies,and kept them stable with its significance for the whole state of society and human spirit. In the modern society,the foundation of the order is no longer a supernatural power,but a secular rational ruler. Therefore,in sharing the depth of liberalization and diversification,the root of personal virtue and social ethics has lost the strong stability. Therefore,in the process of reconstruction for contemporary moral concerns,the ethical dimensions of religion will provide an indispensable resource for us.