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主祷文是耶稣教导他的门徒们以一个团体方式进行祈祷的一个典范祷文。它反映了耶稣对上帝的圣法、上帝之国、上帝意志的关注,并告诉他的门徒们可以向天父祷求帮助他们的物质和灵性需要得以满足。作为一个集体性的祈祷,它赋予基督教一种作为上帝子民的身份感、自信感和团结感。作为一个礼仪实践,它强化了上帝子民与上帝的关系,赋予他们使命的优先性,为他们与日常生活的劳苦与世上罪恶的抗争提供神圣的保证与末世的盼望。主祷文在教义问答与礼仪活动中它都具有突出地位。它还是圣经中最为人喜爱的经文,并以独特方式塑造了教会的信仰与实践。为深入讨论主祷文在基督宗教中的中心地位,本文将探讨四个问题:什么是主祷文?为什么它被尊敬并具有广泛影响力?它是如何成为基督徒生活的身份标志?它为教会发挥了什么样的社会功能?本文还将进行跨信仰的比较,将主祷文与儒家的《西铭》篇进行简短对比,来看跨越宗教/哲学边界的相互理解,如何在双方的文本中发现新的启发并提出新的问题。
The Lord’s Prayer is a model prayer that Jesus taught His followers to pray in a community. It reflects Jesus’ concern for God’s holy law, the kingdom of God, the will of God, and tells his disciples what God’s disciples can pray to help them fulfill their material and spiritual needs. As a collective prayer, it gives Christianity a sense of identity, self-confidence and solidarity as God’s people. As a ceremonial practice, it strengthens the relationship between God’s people and God, gives them priority in mission, and provides them with divine assurance and eschatological hope for their struggle against the hardships of everyday life and the world. The Lord’s Prayer has prominence both in religious questions and answers and in ceremonial activities. It is also one of the most beloved verses in the Bible and shapes the Church’s beliefs and practices in unique ways. In order to dig deeper into the central position of the Lord’s Prayer in Christianity, this article examines four questions: What is the Lord’s Prayer? Why is it respected and has a wide range of influence? How does it become a Christian identity? What kind of social function does the church play? This article will also compare cross-beliefs and briefly compare the Lord’s Prayer with the Confucian “West Ming” articles to see how each other’s understanding across the religious / philosophical frontier, Discover new ideas and ask new questions.