小人物的大历史:清初四川天主教徒徐若翰个案研究的启示

发布时间：2018-09-17 12:04

【摘要】：本文对散藏于欧美各地图书馆的四份稀见中文天主教文献进行比照,同时结合有关教会史料,再现清初四川一位名不见经传的天主教徒徐若翰的生平。透过此微观史个案,本文揭示徐若翰如何协助巴黎外方传教会士白日f首次将《新约圣经》译为中文,并独自编订了四福音书的《会编》,使"白、徐译本"得以传诸后世,直接影响了19世纪初马礼逊等新教传教士的译经工作。徐若翰从四川到广州、澳门,不但卷入天主教各修会之间复杂的争斗,还担任教宗特使多罗流寓澳门期间的中文秘书。此外,他在未寄出的一封信稿中,以"忝居教末"的信徒身份为多罗辩护,抨击在华耶稣会士一系列不端行为,完全颠覆了后者自晚明起理想化的"西儒"形象。深入挖掘这位小人物的不平凡经历,有助于消除近期研究中的若干盲点,对补充明清中国天主教的历史具有启示意义。
[Abstract]:This paper makes a comparison of four rare Chinese Catholic documents scattered in libraries in Europe and the United States, and reproduces the life of Xu Ruohan, a little-known Catholic in Sichuan in the early Qing Dynasty. Through this microcosmic historical case, this paper reveals how Xu Ruohan helped the Parisian missionary to translate the New Testament into Chinese for the first time, and independently compiled the four Gospels, so that the White and Xu versions could be passed on to later generations. It directly influenced the translation of scriptures of Protestant missionaries such as Morrison in the early 19 th century. From Sichuan to Guangzhou and Macau, Xu not only became involved in a complicated struggle among Catholic churches, but also served as the Chinese secretary to the pope's special envoy, Dorothy, during his stay in Macau. In addition, in an unsent letter, he defended Dorothy as a follower of "Umish" and attacked a series of misdeeds by Jesuits in China, which completely subverted the idealized image of "Western Confucianism" since the late Ming Dynasty. It is helpful to eliminate some blind spots in the recent research and to supplement the history of Chinese Catholicism in Ming and Qing dynasties.
【作者单位】：香港大学中文学院;
【分类号】：B979.9

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