“人的宗教”:论《老人与海》中的基督教信仰问题

Man's Religion:Reflection on the Christian Faith in The Old Man and the Sea

对《老人与海》研究中一直存有争议的基督教信仰问题进行了分析,通过廓清文本中信仰救赎的表现及其内在精神含义指明了这部作品并没有将基督教信仰作为最终的精神诉求,而是把基督教中有关救赎的教义思想"世俗化"并希望以此来超越现实世界中个体生命自身的有限性,同时弥合人与自然宇宙的分裂状态。

The understanding of the Christian faith in the The Old Man and the Sea has been a controversial issue,this paper analyzes the textual expression and the inherent spirit of religious redemption in this novel.Linked with contemporaneous religious context,the paper shows the novel only uses the Christian doctrine of salvation as the spiritual resource of ＂man＇s religion＂ and emphasizes Santiago＇s exemplary role to the self-salvation of mankind.