The Contribution Of The Christian Liberal Constitutional

The article examines why the modern constitutionalism was born in west Concerning this question, both Max Weber and Unger said there was a special relationship between constitutionalism and protestant culture. Christianity is not a political theory, but a salvation theory. However Christianity is an anxiology. Christianity changed the relationship between the people and the state. The article argues that Christianity contributes to the modern constitutionalism in two aspects. On the one side, it changed people's mind, upgraded people's dignity, unbinded individual from governmental power. On the other side, it formed a powerful church system which contended with the government The struggle between them contributes the concept of " limited government".The article has four parts. In Chapter One, the article argues that the citizenship in ancient Greece and Rome, before Christianity entered Europe and become arterial religion, differs absolutely from modern citizenship. The essential difference is there was no division between "the private domain" and "the public domain". In ancient Greece, the citizens dissolved in community completely. To the citizens at that time, participating in government and political affairs was the highest life pursuit. Citizenship then mainly was a qualification of taking part in political affairs. Roman first in history, limited "the private domain" and "the public domain". But the citizenship then also was a moral concept, reflecting people's solicitude for public safety and affairs. Individual's value was rather lower than community's interest In ancient Greece and Rome, religion mixed with political affairs fully. Religion was not a personal affair. God was rather a community's God than an individual's God. In Chapter Two, the article argues that Christianity brings individual's liberation from powerful social and governmental power. Christianity enhanced value and dignity of human by advocating dualistic character of human. We know now individual right which resisting state's invasion is the cornerstone of liberalism and constitutional right. And this kind of right is natural right which has transcending orientation.