A Survey On T.C.Chao’s Life Of Jesus:His Thinking Of Religion And Traditional Culture

T.C.Chao(1888-1979)was a famous Chinese Christian theologian,philosopher,educator and prolific author.His thoughts are divided into two periods.This text concerns the thought of Life of Jesus,which is an important work of T.C.Chao’s early thought,and explores the thought from the text by induction,"understanding by heart"and knowing a person and his time".Life of Jesus is a literary with a strong ideological background.It has epochal character and the integration of Chinese and Western,and contains his thinking of religion and Chinese traditional culture.Reviewing from the background of Life of Jesus,T.C.Chao carefully conceived the theme and ingeniously constructed the structure of the article,resonating with the image of Jesus in his mind.In the way of writing and communicating ideas,there is classic interpretation for classics with a lot of Chinese cultural allusions,which implicate readers in their familiar Chinese cultural background,and express the thoughts of the author’s love for the land,the country and the nation,the communion of Christian ethics and Chinese Confucian ethics,and the superb and unrestrained aesthetics of life.The reason for unique thinking in this book lies first in establishing the voice of the age of self-reliant and indigenous Churches;the second reason is that the author embodied Jesus’s philosophy of life summed up by himself and the ideal of saving the nation with Jesus’s personality in the practical work Life of Jesus;and the author’s ideological tendency towards integrating and replenishing Chinese culture with Christian religion is the third reason.The above interpretation enlightens us that there are multilingual and complex cultural backgrounds in modern life.In order to better understand our own existence,we need to dive into each original cultural system.Life of Jesus presents the open possibilities of mutual understanding and mutual promotion of various cultures,and supporting individuals to explore the modern life.