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撮要

本文旨在檢視與評估過去學術界就基督教與中國文化相關課題所曾做過的研究，給予一幅概括的輪廓素描。不過由於課題太大，並要迴避某些玄學式的理論，所以本文將基督教與中國文化的衝突與會通等問題，放回中國歷史與中國教會史的場景中，作「歷史化」的處理。另以，本文只處理明清之際與晚清以降的兩個時期。文中指出，在1949年後的三十多年來，中西交通史與教會史的研究，一直偏重於民族主義角度的考慮，強調中華民族與西方列強的民族矛盾，且認定基督教傳播為帝國主義在華侵略事業不可分割的部分。但近十餘年來研究的重心由單線轉為多角度，由純粹的政治考慮擴闊至社會、文化多面相的關懷，由全盤否定進至較公允地就其優劣利弊作出評估。由此可預見，未來中國大陸的學術界在這個課題上的研究，將會出現更豐碩的成果。

ABSTRACT

This article reviews and assesses the scholarly research concerning Christianity and Chinese culture. Due to the immense scope and theoretical Complexity, this article will approach from a historical perspective, namely situate the conflict and dialogue of Christianity and Chinese culture within the larger context of Chinese history and Chinese church history. Furthermore, the paper will examine only pertinent issues in the Ming and Ching dynasties. The thesis of the paper is that, 30 years after 1949, East-West dialogue and history studies tend to emphasize racism, that is, highlighting the conflict between Chinese people and the Western superpowers, and inevitably acknowledging the coming of Christianity to China as imperialism. But studies from the last ten years has evolved from single to multi-perspectives, from simply political to socio-cultural considerations, from totally negative to both positive and negative assessment. The author perceives future studies by main- land Chinese scholars will be productive and fruitful.

原載於《建道學刊》5期（1996年1月），頁203-239。