Religion And Faith Under The Background Of Chinese Culture With God, Heaven And Tao Centered

This dissertation is composed of four sections:1.The ultimate reality evolvement in early stages of China; 2.The religions and the faiths under the background of Qin and Han's dynasty; 3.The religions and the faiths under the background of the integration of the three deity systems.4. God, Heaven and Tao in modern society.Chapterâ… mainly expounds the ultimate reality evolvement of Chinese culture at periods of Xia, Shang and Chou, Qin & Han Dynasty. This Chapter mainly draws the outline of basic clues of ultimate reality's evolvement which occurred in Chinese Civilization, trying to summarize the relationships of God, Tao and Heaven that is a trinity with special emphasis for each parts:God is distinguished for its predominance, while Heaven for its nature and Tao timely.Chapterâ…¡is to unfold surrounding from the construction of theological ideology which has Confucianism as its center. First the dissertation believes that the theological ideology shaped of Fa-chia and Huangtao in the historical stages has its inevitability, and It is the result of natural selection to set Confucianism as the dominant theological ideology over 2000 years since the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty; The dissertation also explores the shaping course of the theological ideology, such as the accomplishment of Adventurous Jump, the consecration of God to be the highest and supreme god by imperial theological politics, the shaping of Dong Zhongshu's theological politics and so on. At the end of this chapter, it presents the three deity systems with "GOD" as the supreme.Chapterâ…¢mainly expounds the religions and faiths under the background of integration of three deity systems. The dissertation confirms the society which takes Song & Ming Taoism as its central ideology structuring is the traditional society affirmed by the contemporary academic circle. This part mainly unfolds surrounding from these three aspects:relationship between the core concept of Taoism (including Ch'eng-Chu school and Lu-Wang school) and God, Tao, Heaven; Performance of God, Tao and Heaven in the process of the three religions'integration; And convert of the utmost-loyal and the utmost-filial to the Heaven.Chapterâ…£states the circumstance of God, Heaven and Tao in the contemporary society, focusing their model significance to consummate the construction of the Chinese nation, and national philosophy, especially citizen religion.There are two basic clues in this dissertation:one is the evolution of ultimate reality in Chinese Civilization; the other is the evolution of ideology from early China, imperial age till the republic age. The dissertation distinguishes itself for the following 4 innovative points:1.the exploration on the relationship among God, Heaven and Tao; 2. the exposition on God, Heaven and Tao's performance in the three religious'integration; 3. Absolute-loyal and Absolute-finial's convert to the Heaven; 4. The possibility of the Chinese Nation reconstruction, its faith and Citizen Religion construction from the standpoint of ultimate reality.