From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space

Abstract

The paper questions the basic assumption that the nation-state is one city, within which there is a division of goods and a division of labour, which follow certain well-worn binaries: civil society and state, sacred and secular, eternal and temporal, religion and politics, church and state. It explores some deficiencies of John Courtney Murray's conceptualization of the political space in this way, and turns to Augustine's tale of two cities for a more adequate conceptualization. The paper especially argues that the two cities are not two institutions but two performances, two practices of space and time.     

从传统到当下:试论官方对传统节日的积极干预

节日作为人类社会一种普遍存在的文化现象,由于它本身的特殊性质,以及与人们的生活、生产安排的密切关系,不仅成为众多学者研究的内容,也成为广大民众关注的焦点。尤其在当下语境中,随着全球化步伐的加快,在全球经济一体化的背景下要保持文化的多样性已成为有识之士的共识。与此相关,一些人从维护和弘扬民族传统的角度出发,针对目前我国传统节日式微、     

从创造到普及:吴晗先生的学术贡献

在新史学思想主导下,吴晗致力于一种社会的、民众的新明史研究,重新选择传统政治史的问题和研究路径,开创了以明史为中心、元明清一线贯通的研究模式。吴晗最具创造性的研究主要体现在明代政治、军事、社会史方面。他不仅在这些方面开拓出对于明史研究的展开有着重要意义的新课题,而且对这些新课题进行了具有深度的研究,得到了后来学者的广泛认同。20世纪50年代,吴晗由学者变为社会教育家,全身心投入到历史普及,形成了一套关于历史通俗化和历史普及的理论和方法,成为普及历史知识的积极倡导者,为史学和社会结合树立了良好的典范。     

发扬传统 锐意创新——重译《时间与传统》记

《时间与传统》是由张光直先生推荐给中国考古学界的一本西方考古学理论著作,也是上世纪改革开放后引进的第一本西方考古学论著,最初于1991年由北京三联书店出版。张光直先生在推介该书的序言中说:这"是一本讲考古学理论的好书,在美加考古学界也是受人尊敬和重视的一本书。它的中译本对现阶段中国考古学的进展应当是有积     

From Babylon to Christianity: William Foxwell Albright on Myth,Folklore, and Christian Origins

The American Orientalist William F. Albright (1891–1971) is remembered as a leading voice of twentieth‐century “biblical archaeology,” a field that aimed to demonstrate empirically the Hebrew Bible's substantial historicity. Less well known is Albright's research on Christian backgrounds, which by contrast reflected modernist theology's scepticism about the gospel narratives' literal truth. Drawing ideas from the “Pan‐Babylonian” school of biblical criticism, Albright invoked the influence of ancient Near Eastern myth and folklore on the Christ story, this being the culminating theme of his magnum opus From the Stone Age to Christianity (1940). Originally Albright believed that this mythological interpretation would reestablish Christianity's intellectual credibility in the twentieth century and thus help revive New Testament theology. Yet in the latter part of his career he omitted the mythological thesis from his writings, apparently having concluded that it was harmful to orthodox Christian faith.