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The Occasion Of Heaven Between God And Man

Posted on:2013-01-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330374958575Subject:Religious Studies
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The Chinese ancient magical culture has two main basic aspects that are the worship culture and divination culture. The worship culture and divination culture in early China were mutual crisscross. They are both the development of differentiation and crisscross. It paved the way for the policy of ritual and existential philosophy of China's ancient morality and culture. It has formulating the direction of ancient Chinese culture and formed the unique Chinese cultural psychological structure that the combination and development of the worship culture and divination culture in ancient China.It formed a series of complex concepts on the basis of development of the worship culture and divination culture in early China. The destiny view in it had a direct influence for the "I Ching". The "I Ching" is the product of development of Chinese ancient divination culture. It is the optional summary for the Chinese ancient divination culture. The relation between heaven and man run through it. So the "I Ching" has characteristics of "exploring the relationship between man and nature" and "exploring the source of all things change". It through the grasp the principle about the good or ill luck and the growth and decline to pursue master the principle about the advance and retreat and the surviving or perishing. The "I Ching" is the survival philosophy ancient codes and records to solve survival problems through divination forms.The "I Ching" achieve to hastening lucky avoiding disaster and avoiding risk purpose through predicting good or ill luck, gains and losses, advantages and disadvantages, safety and hazards. The "I Ching" culture will translate the all kinds of uncertainty variable world into certainty. It both provides the feasibility for human to cognize the regularity and necessity all kinds of things in the world and provides a special paradigm for human to solve the problems of survival. The "I Ching" considers it as the target heading off a danger and turning the corner. It reveals the characteristics of practical reason of Chinese culture in solving the problems of survival. The practical reason of the "I Ching" was full of abstractness and generality through promoting and conversion of "the annotation of the I Ching". So the "I Ching" has the universal significance to guide human solving the problems of survival.The "I Ching" has not only the function for human recognizing and grasping the necessity and regularity of the changing living environment but also the beneficial methodological guidance significance for human understanding the complexity of the natural, social and spiritual world through using the easy ways to hunt the necessity from the fickle reality basing on the simulation and feature of structures and changing relations of the world and society. The "I Ching" has grasping the dialectical relation between heaven and man through analysis of the changing relations in its system basing on incorporating the safety and hazards into a simple modeled system. This would not only help to improve the ability of human knowledge, but also help to deal with and solve the problems of survival for human.The "bible" and the "I Ching" are a group of historical writing of group. The thoughts and ideas in the social and historical in the creation process directly reflect the survival and social status and cultural conditions at that time. It provided a very important material and perspectives for us to explore the relationship between human and nature and between god and human.The "Bible" formed its unique model of relationship between God and human because it made the producing and evolution and development to bring into the belief system see god as foremost through the forms of general revelation and special revelation basing on the development of the revelation cultures. As a book of religious beliefs originating in from revelation culture, its core content is a reflection of the complicated relations between God and man. The God's properties and power and status determined that he is the subject of the revelation in the relations between God and man throughout the Bible. The human's properties and power and status are all depended on God. Human would realize the normal and meaningful life through the salvation and keep from God only trusting in God.The Testament is the religious classics of early Hebrews and Israel on the basis of the cultural creation on introducing the experiences of solving the living problems the around crowd basing on resolving and deal with the reality survival problems. The problems that are can't be solved in reality gradually translated into religious faith through spirit solution means following the difficult problems gradually transfer from the natural and social space into the mental space. The solution way relying on god's power directly constitute the basis of religious. It was the deep theology revolution of god idea that the god of Israel transfer to the god of human. It shows the convert of classics from the Old Testament to the New Covenant. The process of the New Covenant's creative inheritance of the Old Testament formed the views emphasizing the salvation formed the views of believing Jesus Christ and the ethics views of righteousness through reforming the tendency emphasizing God's laws in the inherited process.The survival problems contain all problems related to the biological life and the social life and the spirit life at the same time. The human's survival contains three domains of biological survival and social survival and spirit survival. It formed the three-dimensional survival space structure of natural and social and spiritual corresponding three-dimensional life under the lamination of the human's survival problems consciousness and concept. The three-dimensional survival spaces are mutual harmony with penetration the perturbation. It fundamentally offering the spaces of settleing down and getting on with one's survival pursuit from the root of living. If the three-dimensional survival space structure had been cut and be deformation, it would form the corresponding "the naturalism tendency" and "the socialism tendency" and "the spiritualism tendency". If we insist on any a tendency above-mentioned three tendencies, it would inevitably lead to the distortion of human and society even it would appear abnormal condition of humanity.If we will realize the integrity and the wholeness of the human nature, we must promote cultural integration and innovation through absorbing the strengths and advantage of two cultural classic in value orientation. Only basing on paying attention to integrity of the three-dimensional survival space structure, we may find the repairing path of the distorted human nature and the abnormal condition of people and society and make up for the respective lack of the eastern and western cultures.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Relationship between Human and Nature, the Relationshipbetween God and Man, the I Ching, the Bible, the Religious Culture
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