基督教与辛亥革命

Christianity and the Revolution of 1911

辛亥革命早期的革命家中,基督教徒已经成为骨干力量,而孙中山则始终是个忠实的基督教徒;作为革命民主主义的政治家,基督教的宗教意识,是他们进行革命的肯定性精神力量;孙中山的三民主义,是中国传统思想与近代西方思想相结合的产物,它的重要基础则是孙中山所吸收的基督教文化;在总结中国近代革命经验教训的基础上,借鉴以基督教为代表的西方文化发展中的有价值成果,形成了辛亥革命时期文明的宗教政策,即政教分离的政策,这本身也反映出了孙中山领导的辛亥革命的民主主义性质。

Among the early revolutionists of the Revolution of 1911,Christians were the backbones.Sun Yet-sun was the loyal Christian.As the politician of revolutionary democratism,he advocated Christian religion as the spiritual force of revolution.His Three Principles of the People was the product of combining the Chinese traditional thoughts with the modern western thoughts,the important basis of which was the Christian culture.On the basis of summarizing the experience and lesson of Chinese modern revolution,he borrowed the valuable western culture represented by Christianity and made the civilized religious policy in the period of the Revolution of 1911,that is,the policy of separation of politics and religion.This reflects the democratic nature of the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yet-sun.