老舍与基督教关系考证

Textual Research on the Relationship between Lao She and Christianity

尽管老舍有着清晰的基督教履历,但质疑者始终存在。这种争议主要针对老舍作品中对“洋教”的讽刺态度以及浓厚的世俗味。然而通过资料证明和史实考证发现,老舍加入的是新教,新教本就注重世俗。他笔下的“洋教”未必是基督教,而他批判教徒中的败类是他“卫道”的表现。因此这些质疑不但不能否认老舍信教,相反可以作为老舍具有基督教思想的证据。但随着时间的推移,老舍的教会活动和作品中的基督教信仰逐步弱化,转而变成对基督教中部分思想的青睐,而非对全部教义的信仰。老舍在后期的确逐步向“共产主义”信仰转移,这源于基督教和共产主义的相通之处以及老舍年龄和阅历增长后对现实的深刻认知。

Although Lao She has a clear Christian resume,there are always doubters.This controversy is mainly aimed at the satirical attitude towards“foreign religion”and the strong secular flavor in Lao She’s works.However,through data proof and textual research of historical facts,it is found that Lao She joined the Protestantism,which pays attention to the secular world.The“foreign religion”in his works may not be Christianity,and his criticism of the scum among the believers is a manifestation of his“defense of morality”.Therefore,these doubts can not deny Lao She’s religious belief.On the contrary,they can be used as evidence of Lao She’s Christian thought.However,with the passage of time,the Christian faith in Lao She’s church activities and works gradually weakened,and turned into a preference for some ideas in Christianity,rather than a belief in all doctrines.In the later period of Lao She’s life,he did gradually shifted to the belief of communism,which originated from the similarities between Christianity and communism,and Lao She’s profound understanding of reality after his age and experience.