冯友兰的宗教观探要

On Feng Youlan's Religious Ideas

作为近现代一流哲学大师的冯友兰先生对宗教有自己独特而深刻的见解。无论是对宗教本质、特征与作用的看法,对中国哲学与中国宗教关系、对儒家宗教性的看法,还是对宗教、哲学与科学三者关系的看法,对近代科学与基督教的论述,对祖宗崇拜以及对佛家与佛教、道家与道教的精彩论述,都体现出他对宗教,特别是对中国宗教的深入把握与独特贡献。

As a great modern philosophic master, Mr. Feng Youlan got his unique and protound understanding of religion. He had his own opinions on the nature, features and role of religions; on the relationship between Chinese philosophy and Chinese religions, the Confucian religious features, on the interrelationship of religion, philosophy and science. He also had outstanding argument about modern science and Christianity, ancestor worship, Buddhists and Buddhism, Taoists and Taoism. All these display his profound mastery of and unique contribution to religion, especially to Chinese religions.