| 英文摘要 |
Taking the "reception history of the Bible" as its approach, the article investigates how K. H. Ting, one of the most important "Three-Self Church" leaders in China, constructs Jesus love and its political implications through interpretation of the Gospels in the various political contexts. Specifically, Ting remakes four aspects of Jesus love: (1) Jesus loves the whole human being, including non-believers as well as believers; (2) Jesus both identifies with and separates from people the sinners; (3) Jesus comes to liberate the suppressed and the "sinned against"; and (4) Jesus performs patriotism. Bridging Gospel texts and political situations in modern China, Ting shapes a "political hermeneutics of incarnation". On the one hand, that Tings hermeneutics is full of political considerations arises out of the Sino-Japanese War in 1930s and 1940s, and the "New China" of socialism after 1950s. On the other hand, Ting, in order to make those considerations more persuasive and legitimate religiously, has to find biblical "proof-texts" for them. In this sense, Ting finds the incarnational Jesus in the Gospels, and uses him as an "endorsement" to develop his political hermeneutics. Tings contextual interpretation of the Gospels and images of Jesus embody one kind of "the politics of Jesus love". |
