中英教材分析-Chapter3.ppt

Three actual functions of religion: Religion as an embodiment of priest-craft,with its dogmas, its apostolic succession, its appeal to miracles, its patent cures for sins and selling of pardons, its salvation “made easy” and its good solid heaven and hell. There is religion as a sanction for moral conduct: Chinese:Humanist ethics is a man-centered,not a God- centered ethics. Christian:Men should, or could, behave toward one another as decent beings with thinking of their indirect relationship through a third party. Reasons for the differences between a religious culture like that of Christendom and a frankly agnostic culture like that of the Chinese respond to. 3. There is religion as an inspiration and living emotion, a feeling for the grim grandeur and mystery of the universe and a quest for security in life, satisfying man’s deepest spiritual instincts. Several occasions: -during the loss of our dear ones -during the period of convalescence from a great illness -on a chilly autumn morning---the falling leaves -a sense of death and futility Answers to the above problems: To the west---religion seems the natural escape. To the Chinese---The Confucian conception of man’s place in nature is that”Heave, earth and man” are regarded as “the three geniuses of the universe” The Chinese roof, and unlike the Gothic spires, man’s spirit does not aspire to heaven but broods over the earth. Its greatest achievement is to attain a measure of harmony and happiness in this earthly life.” The Chinese roof suggests that happiness is first to be found in the home. Indeed, the home stands for them as a symbol of Chinese humanism. Painting: Sacred and profane Love(神圣的和世俗的爱) Life like a housewife: Such simplicity is difficult, for simplicity is the quality of great minds. The Chinese have achieved his simple ideal, not by mere laziness of effort but by a positive worship of simplicity, or the religion o