论构建中国的法律信仰──读伯尔曼《法律与宗教》有感

Research on the Construction of China’s Legal Beliefs──Inspiration on Berman’s “Law and Religion”

中国目前处于一个重要的历史变革和以大规模立法为主要特征的法制建设时期,但是其中普遍存在着法律情感薄弱和法律信仰缺失的危机。借鉴伯尔曼对西方法律与宗教的历史渊源和现代社会发展中二者之间的关系进行的理性分析,发掘现代法律和信仰的深层联系,从而提出在当今中国应当建立具有神圣性因素的法律体系和法律文化,建构具有中国自己民族特色的法律信仰;那么就要在中国的民族精神中寻找途径,把中国法律源头之一的神圣性因素——"礼法道德"引入到当代的法律中去,使得我国法律在普通民众心中能够唤起民族意识和归属感,从而具有一种本民族的神圣性,为中国民众所信仰。这对于我们今天的法制建设是有很大意义的。

Today China is at an important transformational time when massive legislation has been established,at the same time Chinese people hardly have legal emotions and legal beliefs. It is,to some extent,essentially in the same situation as the United States in history mentioned in Pro. Berman’s"Law and Religion". From his analysis on the relations between law and religion,exploring the deep ties between modern law and beliefs,the author argues that China should build our own legal beliefs with Chinese characteristics and establish our own legal system and legal culture with some religious sanctity. We should absorb such sanctity from China’s traditional law and national spirit,and then perfectly combine it with our tem-poral law,thus that arouses people’national awareness and great belief in law. It will be of great significance for today’s legislative construction.