The Study Of The Spinoza's Religion Thinking

Beginning from Revival of Learning and Reformation,the traditional Christianty began its despiritualization.During this process, Spinoza of 17 century acted an important role. From introducing and argumenting the idea of Spinoza, this article proves the important role that Spinoza played on the history of western religion. And this also can help us to study the history of western religion and the thought of Spinoza. This article devides in three parts to expatiate the thought of spinoza's religion criticism.The first part esposits the notation of God in Spinoza's pantheism,which makes the criticize to traditional Christianty'God.《The ethics》is the major book which imbodys this thought.Spinoza thought that:entity is self-assurance,whose existance doesn't depend on anything.The God is an infinite and free entity,any definition to the God is a limitation.Influenced by the Natural Science of the modern times, Spinoza was full of affection to the nature and thought that it also be an infinite entity.The entity'self-assurance decides there is only one of it.Then the God is the entity,just two names. Descartes'two entities:thought and extension,become the attribution of Spinoza's entity,which is not just owed by the God itself,but also attributed分有by the concrete states of the nature.Anything in the cosmic is in the Cause-and-effect chain,which combine a organic system in a certain way.This eternal and unchanged order,is the God or the nature.Spinoza'God is not the transcendental one,but is in the nature and furthmore the same with it.This vivid nature entirety which work on the natural nature expressed Spinoza's worship to the nature.His pantheism is a"atheism in substance",which get rid of the mysticism color of the traditional pantheism.His is the pioneer in the way from the modern times'materialism to the evently atheism.The second part expounds the the historical critique to The Bible from spinoza in《Theology and politics theory》. Christianty has deep version tradition..The Bible is the ultimate authority of chiristianity,and during the farflung middle ages,the illustrate to the Bible all aimed to defend the belief.But The Bible faced many chanllges in the morderen times. Spinoza is the represent of the free-reading which sprang in the 17'century.His《Theology and politics theory》abides by the principle"all appeal to itself",which acts a critical ispect from the angle of History and linguistics. He sticks to use the way which explains the nature to illustrate The Bible.Through this,he thought that The Bible is not Enlightened by The God,but a ordinary work which was written and edited by the Hebrew in the long history,which has its political and religion function.Furthermore,the enlightenment and the miracles,which is the source of the sacred,have the real function of morality.The real source of the thearchy lies in the politics.And the human create the religion,not the God create the human.And so the royal prerogative has more power than the thearchy.The history and naturalism inspect to The Bible which Spinoza made had far-reaching influence to later ages.《Theology and politics theory》is the milestone of the critic to The Bible.The third explained Spinoza's ideological transformation of the traditional Christian.Spinoza postulated that only a few achieve happiness in the application of their love of the God's ration and therefore, he divides the fields between psychology and belief for the purpose of retaining the base of belief. In his opinion, the goal of religion is human being's happiness and the latter is the survival premise of the former. Humane religion belongs to the real religion while his so-called belief is affiliated to this one, which means that loving the God and others is equal to love his self-image in order arrive at a harmonious state and obtain happiness. In the Christian ethicality, Belief in the God is the crucial premise for humanity to win happiness while Spinoza agrees that the core reason and the final purpose of belief and existence of religion lies in human beings' happiness, which mirrors the orientation of religious worldliness and moralization.