Fellowship Of Jesus Christ

The Renaissance, a landmark in European history, witnessed another monumental and extensive collision in combination with fusion between two old cultural sources-ancient Greek-Roman Culture and Jewish-Christian Culture in an age of transition when destruction and new birth coincided, inviting innovative humanism thoughts into the ideological realm. Although the predominant medieval theology and feudal power were tottering and undergoing collapse as the humanism movement was coming into being, the latter, like a fetus in the womb, would never cease to assimilate fatal nutriment from its maternal body-the former, thus maintaining blood ties and sharing common attributes with it. It was inevitable that such a social and cultural milieu might leave a deep and striking imprint of a time of turmoil upon Shakespeare himself and his everlasting works. He, a pious Christian for a life-long time, contrived to create an imaginative artistic world much closer in the depth to the religious reverence and concern for human beings imbedded in major doctrines of the Christianity and its Bible while the newly-born humanism, the key-note of the Renaissance, opened a new window for him to perceive the world as well as instilled into him and his plays a novel feeling of admiration for human beauty and human achievements. Above all, what was especially characteristic of Shakespeare compared with his other radical humanism contemporaries lay in the rich symbolical Christian tone and religious implications his devout and personalized beliefs in Christianity bestowed upon his humanism ideal. On the basis of his sincere care for mankind and poignant reflection on the cruel reality, both newly-established humanism and long-rooted Christian creed were conflicting and interacting with each other in his mind, combining into one and culminating in his ultimate solicitude for all mankind and ideal scheme of solving actual contradictions and social problems. What is more, the very great playwright, suffering a lot from the abstruse spiritual cataclysm, just as the Jesus Christ did with intense and unregretful love and affections for man, persevered in a tough and indomitable exploration into the salvation of evil souls of degenerated people and mirthful destination of the life voyage of man. Therein this essay makes a good attempt to present an elaborate analysis of Shakespeare's plays and thoughts in terms of the Christian tone and spiritual resemblance to major doctrines of the pristine Christianity as follows:Part I: From a dialectical standpoint arise a series of reflections upon consistentspiritual successiveness and close relationship to the Christianity in Humanism and Shakespeare. Dialectically, there is a deviation and distortion in interpreting the influence of Christianity on the ensuing Renaissance and Humanism. The essential doctrines of the pristine Christianity and its Bible cherish a precious treasury of interest in, respect and concern for man, or rather humanitarianism as it is, equivalent in some sense to the thoughts of humanists and meanwhile awfully divergent from the deformed Christianity dominated by corrupt Churches and feudal powers, which was abandoned completely and attacked fiercely by the Renaissance movement and humanists. To a certain extent, the Humanism inherited myriads of spiritual merits from the Christianity while absorbing many ancient Greek-Roman thoughts in one way or another. Accordingly, Shakespeare deserves another profound and all-round examination regarding his Christian views and personal relationship to the Christianity. Given the fact that he lived in such an age of transition with osmosis of still thick Christian atmosphere, it goes without saying that a strong Christian tone as well as religious implications is permeating his dramas and his thoughts.Part II: Throughout the maternal and the fetal bodies flow ties of consanguinity and intrinsic resemblance. It is worth researching considerable resemblances and sympathies between Shakespeare's dramas and the Bible when it comes to artistic ar...