The Analysis Of Christian Charity Thought

Charity is the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, which has the importantstatus in the traditional Chinese ethical culture. The spirit of advocating save weakfor poverty alleviation, solidarity, mutual help, love, dedication spirit ofphilanthropy and charity makes great difference in the aspect of inspiring socialenergy, social responsibility, conflicting resolving social crime gas and building asocialist core value system.Christian, one of the three largest religions, has the most numbers anddistribute widely. Christian charity contains dedications to goodness, mercy,justice and love your neighbor as yourself, be kind to the poor, and respect andcare for the people rich content. Stripped of Christian charity thought divine coat,the commandment of their absolute bondage, Christian has positive realistic valuein constructing contemporary China’s charity cause.As a worldwide religion ethics thought, Christian charity had great impact onthe development of charitable thoughts. Christian charity thought contains love,love your neighbor as yourself, be kind to the poor, fair, Samaritan thought, which is still the core content in today’s world charity thought. These charity ideas ismeaningful in enhancing ethical consciousness of the citizen society, ideologicaland moral qualities of citizens, and educating people keen to public welfare, evenimproving the whole social welfare and security system, have important practicalsignificance. Christian has been committed to disaster relief, aid, rescue orphaned,the poor, the student, and the medical aspects of the charitable cause. These goodworks not only embody the importance of the religious charity in Chinesetraditional virtues but also become an essential charitable thought for today’ssociety. With the development of the society, the Christian charity has become asocial public welfare undertaking, and formed a positive force in building aharmonious socialist society.Christian charity provides rich ideas of charity in our China.“The religiousdoctrine and religious Canon and some positive factors of religious moral shouldbe used to serve socialism”[1], which is the important content of China’s religiouspolicies. In the eighteenth big report on “promoting urban and rural social securitysystem construction”,“supporting the development of philanthropy” is emphasized,which shows that philanthropy has become an important part in social securitysystem. In recent years, the party and the government attach great importance todevelop the philanthropy, actively build the charity organization, strengthen theguidance and support the development of philanthropy. Christian charity plays ahuge role in many fields such as adjusting social interest distribution, alleviatinginternal contradiction, promoting social equity, enhancing national cohesion,improving citizens’ sense of social responsibility, creating a good social atmosphere, and promoting socialist spiritual civilization construction and theconstruction of socialist harmonious society.Religion is an important part of China’s philanthropy, which is also thebeneficial supplement of social security in our country. Therefore, It has theimportant practical significance in fully playing the role of the Christian charity,absorbing Christian charity reasonable ingredients, applying to today’sphilanthropy, constructing “take the essence and discard the dregs”, and promotingcivil charity quality and ethical and moral level; at the same time, It has importantpractical significance in drawing lessons from reasonable content of Christiancharity system raise mechanism and management system, resolving thedisadvantages of present charity work, constructing of new perfect charitymechanism and promote health vigorous development of philanthropy in ourcountry.