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撮要

王明道先生是中國教會歷史中著名的傳道人，對聖經權威十分重視，一生的教導和牧養工作都按聖經教導而來。本文嘗試分析王氏的聖經觀和他的釋經學，並指出其釋經的實用性。文章最後反對把王氏說成是一個尋找作者原意的倡導者，更以詮釋學的解讀為王氏不重經文的歷史與文法、卻重實際生活應用的釋經進路辯護，確立這是一個「合法」的詮釋。

ABSTRACT

Wang Ming-dao was one of the outstanding church leaders in China. He gave great emphasis on the authority of Bible. And his teaching and pastoral ministry were based on the teachings of the Bible. This paper presents an analysis on Wang’s view of the Bible and his exegesis, with emphasis on his exegetical praxis. The writer objects against the idea that the aim of Wang’s exegesis was to merely to focus on the biblical authors’ original intention in their writings. In light of Gadamer’s theory of hermeneutics, the writer claims the “legitimacy” of Wang’s exegesis, though it is totally different from the historical-grammatical method.

In the present stage of Chinese modernization, there are three dilemmas: (1) the dilemma between economic reform and political reform; (2) the dilemma between the priority of social system reform and the efforts on improving individual quality of the people; and (3) the dilemma of the need and the adverse effects of modernization. The writer claims that Christian virtues (such as “love,” “humility”), its spirituality and its moral teachings would help China to deal with these dilemmas. In short, Christianity does have its positive role in the contemporary Chinese modernization process.

原載於《建道學刊》12期（1999年7月），頁297-323。