Chrjstianopolis And Christian Culture

Utopia literature and Christian culture have deep original relations, the spirit of ideal, Christiancharity and equal thought in the Bible deeply affect the construction of utopia literature. Christianopolis isa classical work in utopia literature history, the author Andreae is a pastor keen on religious reformenterprise, that Christianopolis penetrates strong Christian culture tint; but the research for Christianopolishas focused on all aspects outside Christian, few people do the text analyzing and thought retracingsystematically from the point of view of Christian culture. Based on the comprehensive research results athome and abroad, combined with the social background of Germany religious reform and Andreae’spersonal Christian faith, to explore the relations between Christianopolis and Christian culture, andanalyses reference and fusion of Christianopolis to the Bible text and Christian theology tradition,highlighting Christian culture has deep influence for the work.The paper is divided into three parts: introduction, text and conclusion.Introduction reveals the relationship between Christianopolis and Christian and the classicalBible firstly, then summarizes the domestic and foreign research situation, determines topic selection andresearch angle according to the present research situation.The text is divided into three chapters.The first chapter “the writing background of Christianopolis” is divided into two parts. The firstpart provides an overview of German religious reform conditions before Christianopolis, analyses theinfluence for finishing the book from religious reform; the second part introduce Christianopolis andChristian related to the content, introduces Andreae’s personal experience, reveals the relationship betweencreation of Christianopolis and Christian culture according to his identity as pastor and his religious reformpractice. The second chapter “Christianopolis and the Bible prototype” is divided into two parts, with thehelp of Fletcher’s archetypal theory, to analyze the relationship between Christianopolis and the Bibleprototype. The first part is Christianopolis and the Bible prototype image, analyze influence ofChristianopolis text from paradise image and “shepherd” image specifically; the second part analyzes theinternal relationship between Christianopolis and the Bible from the Bible prototype theme, namely theprophets’ spirit and the thought of heaven these two aspects.The third chapter “Christianopolis and Christian theology tradition” is divided into two parts.The first part studies the inheritance of Christianopolis on the church view, redeemed view and holy thingsetiquette tradition from the point of view of theological doctrine; the second part expounds moral ethicalconcept of Christianopolis develop Christian traditional ethics from the point of view of Christiantraditional ethics.“Conclusion” summarizes the general point of this article, explains the uniqueness ofChristianopolis in Utopia literature history and its importance for spreading of Christian culture, andexpects more people to discuss such works from the religious angle.