But as for the Chinese translation of "Kingdom of Heaven", although the translation is quite satisfactory, it seems to be slightly lacking in the requirements of "Da" and "Ya". And it's a bit awkward to read, and it's also mixed with "Kingdom of Heaven".
Today, I accidentally read "The Kingdom of Heaven" in "History of European Thought", and suddenly thought of this movie I watched a long time ago. The source of the "Kingdom of Heaven" in the book is the twentieth volume of Augustine's "City of God". In his (Augustine) eyes, the church has become the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of heaven. In this book, Augustine specifically writes: "The church is made up of free associations of citizens, to which there are people, both before and after Christ, in and out of Israel. These many little groups are connected as one, 'through this The age of evil and calamity . . . lives in the persecution of the world and the grace of God'. It is getting closer to the last great persecution of the world against it, and it is getting closer to the end of world history." explain. According to the religious and political traditions of the Carolingian Dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, the Germanic people in the Middle Ages translated him as "the kingdom of God". Catholicism after the Reformation interpreted it as "the church headed by the Pope" to deny other denominations of Christians. As for the Arian faction supported by Emperor Constantine in the Eastern Roman Empire, although there is no clear explanation, it can be guessed that the dictatorship ruled by the emperor who "recognizes himself as the representative of God on earth" is the so-called "heavenly" kingdom". Although each faction has different interpretations, they all maintain their own rationality to the greatest extent.
In the case of Augustine, however, it consists of triple negation and triple confirmation.
1 It denies the Christian Empire, whether from Bishop Eusebius or other court theologians, Arian or Orthodox, whether Eastern or Western preaching.
2 It also negates the Eastern view of the kingdom of God as an autocratic state. In the East, according to the interpretation of Neo-Platonic ideas, God's light is distributed layer by layer, so from Origen to Dionysius the enforcer, the kingdom of God is regarded as a country of autocracy and centralized power.
3 It also denies the equating of the church on earth with the kingdom of God. This is the self-righteousness that European bishops often fall into when they are fighting against Arian regimes.
Augustine explained its positive meaning in "City of God" as:
1. The friend of God, the city of God is composed of friends of
God. 2. The city of God is a family
. 3. The city of God is the people of God who continue to reform the church. It can be seen from the efforts of renewal
that Augustine regards this city of God, the city of God, and the kingdom of heaven as "a free and sober rationalism", an "eternal city", as opposed to "the world of the world". City; again stating its "constantly renewed power from the underlying structure of its irrational beliefs" - again denying the self-righteous and smug view that the secular church is equated with the kingdom of God.
Wiki's interpretation of Heaven is:
Heaven may refer to the physical heavens, the sky or the seemingly endless expanse of the universe beyond. The term is used to refer to a plane of existence (sometimes held to exist in our own universe) in religions and spiritual philosophies, typically described as the holiest possible place, accessible by people according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, etc.
Although most Chinese people do not believe in Christianity, Wiki's interpretation of Heaven is roughly the same as the Chinese concepts of "Heaven" and "Heaven". Next, the wiki also lists the views of many religions, including Christianity and Islam, on Heaven. Although the content is different, and although each language has different names for Heaven, as a spiritual sustenance that is different from the world, Heaven is the same for many people.
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