天主教与中国文化

该文介绍了中国天主教的由来和发展、天主教传教士在中国传教的方式以及天主教教义与中国传统文化(儒学)相结合的共同点,阐述了著名天主教传教士利玛窦如何推行天主教儒学化及其影响,指明了天主教传教士在“西学东渐”和“东学西渐”方面做出的贡献以及他们在中西文化交流过程中的重要桥梁作用。

Catholicism and Chinese Culture

By presenting the origin and the development of Chinese Catholicism,the preaching way of Catholic missionaries in China and the common ground of the Catholic doctrines and the Chinese traditional culture(Confucianism),this paper expounds how the famous Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci pursued the confucianization of the catholicism as well as the effect it exerted.Also it demonstrates the contribution the Catholic missionaries have made in the processes of both western culture into China and Chinese culture into the west and their important bridge role in Chinese and western cultural communication.