轉化抑或對話？－－李春生所理解的中國經典

Transformation or Dialogue? －－ The Chinese Classics as Understood by Li Ch'un-sheng

李春生是臺灣近代的基督教思想家。他飽讀中國文化經典，並加以評論。他的主要興趣在於儒家，對佛、道兩家的興趣不大。他一方面極力在古代儒家經典（尤其是《詩經》、《書經》、《論語》）中尋求證據，以證明古代中國人（包括孔子）亦有上帝信仰；在另一方面，他完全否定佛、道兩家的信仰，而視之為偶像崇拜。同時，他將孔子與後儒的觀點加以區別，而將儒家經典中與基督教一神論觀點明顯不合之處歸咎於後儒（如子思、司馬遷、朱子）之偏離正道。本文根據李春生的著作，詳細分析他對中國文化經典的詮釋及其中所牽涉的問題。他對於中國文化經典的詮釋代表中國耶教徒試圖融合耶教與中國文化的努力；這使他的詮釋有獨特的視角，但亦不免有所扭曲。因此，在他對於儒學的詮釋中，「轉化」的意味遠多於「對話」的意味。

As a Christian thinker of modern Taiwan, Li Ch'un-sheng took a great interest in the Chinese classics, and wrote a great number of articles on them. On the one hand, he tried to demonstrate the belief of ancient Chinese (including Confucius) in God by appealling to Confucian classics (especially Book of Odes, Book of Documents, and the Analects). On the other hand, he refuted Buddhism and Taoism as idolatry. Moreover, he distinguished the views of Confucius himself from those of the latter Confucianists, and attributed the views of some Confucian texts, which contradicted Christian monotheism, to the deviation of the latter Conficianists (like Tzu Szu, Szuma Ch'ien, Chu Hsi) from the orthodox views. In this paper, the author analyses Li Ch 'un-sheng's interpretations of the Chinese classics and the related problems as reflected in his works. This represents the effort of Chinese Christians to accommodate the Christian faith in Chinese cultural soil. Therefore, Li 's interpretations of the Chinese classics exhibited a special (although distorted) perspective. In a philosophical sense, this new perspective demonstrated the attempts of tranforming Chinese culture by Christian rather than the dialogue between both cultures.