On The Religious Thought Of The Tetralogy Of Rabbit

John Updike is a contemporary writer of America who writes about religion subjects and expresses religion feelings consciously. He holds his religious principles, uping by the two believes——the divine ultimate solicitude and the secular humanistic solicitude, tries to show the development and future of human beings'religion and to find out the end-result for human beings'belief. Tetralogy of Rabbit, as Updike's masterpiece, expresses the author's thinking and attention to the religion condition of contemporary America and to the destiny of humanity.Personages in Tetralogy of Rabbit are implanted into the consciousness to the divine traditional religion. Harry, the main character of the work, his religion experienced from blind faith to God to individual faith, to combining religious belief with patriotism, and then to faith withering to God after rich, and finally to restoration to God after highly self-expanding. It reflects the bewildered experience of spirit belief of comtemporary American and their attempts and efforts to escape from nihility though religion faith. And the three priests are imlpanted such fact that the religion of comtamporaty America has become secularized. It shows the syncretism inclination between religiong and secularity from antinomy.The religious thought of Tetralogy of Rabbit originates from the American Puritanism ideals, the religious thoughts and theology theories of Kierkegaard and Karl Barth. Puritanism as the essense of American culture, it definitely infulences Updike; Kierkegaard and Karl Barth'impact on him is mainly embodied in the belief's hecceity,subjectivity, divinity of the personages and their crisis senses enlightened by the God.