冰心和宗教文化

Bing Xin and Religious Culture

冰心从不隐讳自己同宗教的关系。她对待自己所受洗的基督教虽不重视其仪式,却稔知《圣经》,尊重教义。她总自觉不自觉地将自然神论和自由主义神学融合在一起。她对基督的“爱的人格”尤为钟情;由她自己提出的“爱的哲学”,其核心正在于“爱的人格”。20世纪下半叶,冰心的宗教意识淡出,但她以调和之态对待其他宗教,并视宗教为文化,在国际文化交流中作出杰出贡献。冰心文学的审美,倾向于上帝-自然-艺术三位一体的建构,她相信艺术创造有“神助”之力,由她主张的语体、所呈现的艺术风格,也都烙有《圣经》的投影。

Bing Xin never covered up her relation with religion. She was baptized a Christian. Although she attached no importance to the ritual of Christianity, she had a good knowledge of the Bible and showed respect for the creed. She tended to combine deism with liberalism. She particularly cherished 'person of love' in Christianity, which is the very core of her 'philosophy of love'. In the late half of the 20th century her religious consciousness faded out. Nevertheless she viewed other religions in harmony and categorized religion into the culture, making remarkable contributions in international cultural exchanges. Bing Xin's aesthetic conceptions in literature incline to the construction of the trinity of God -Nature -Art. Believing that literary and artistic creation is under the help of God, she is influenced by the Bible in language and artistic style.