Christian Culture And Spirit Of Western Constitutionlism

Constitutionlism culture is rooted in the unique soil of Western culture,the formation of spirit of Western constitutionlism has its profound and unique cultural background .As a vital Western traditinal culture,Christian culture no doubt played a sinificant role in the heritage and development of spirit of constitutionlism.From the Christian point of view to sort out a certain context of the development of Western spirit of constitutionlism is conducive to analysis the growth machanism and the sustance of Western constitutionlism more profoundly and comprehensively.At present,ther are few studies about Christian culture impact of the fomation of Western constitutional,theorists do not pay enough attention on the relevance between Christian culture and Western constitutional.This paper view of Western constitutionlism at Christian culture,mainly dicusses the important influence on the fomation and devolopment of Western constitutionlism.In order to provide some thought to explore the construction of the Chinese constitution.The first part focuses on Christian heritage of ancient constitutionlism, Christian, founded in ancient Greece and became the state religion in the Roman Republic ,with its unique influnce in the promotional of Christionity at the same time as the inheritors of the ancient sprit of constitutionlism. Because of this feature of Christianity, the constitutional spirit of the ancient Europe heritage become more complete.The second part, discusses the important influence of the struggle of the church and secular during the Middle Ages, Reformation and classical natural law theory for the development of constitutional spirit. Medieval Christian unwilling only dominance of the spiritual world, thus challenged the authority of the secular. Game between the church and secular nurtured the ideology of decentralization, has laid a solid foundation for the development of modern constitutional thought. Meanwhile, for the flag by protestant modern bourgeois revolution and Classical natural law criticize of Christian culture inject new vitality to the development of modem constitutionalism spirit,and also make safeguard human rights and limit the power of the government thought gradually permeate spirit of constitutionalism.The third part, emphatically elaborated Christian culture plays an important role of content on constitutional spirit. Including Christianity "agreement" for the formation of ideology of the constitutional concept of sovereignty of the people, The struggle of the church and secular role in promoting the separation of powers doctrine and the association between Christian faith in God and the supremacy of the constitution .