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民国肇建之初,美国在华传教士因福音传播事业所需以及袁世凯所表现出的对基督宗教之睦善态度,遂对其抱有好感,寄予厚望,接受其就任中华民国总统。大多数传教士认为,袁世凯是其时中国领导者之中的最强有力者和最能胜任者,是最能在国家处于困境之际统领国家、给潜在混乱局面带来秩序和稳定的人,是1911年革命后挽救中国危局之最佳人选,故对其高压专制与独裁统治给予辩护,支持其镇压“二次革命”。然而,随着袁世凯复辟帝制,期冀变儒教为国教,影响到基督宗教之在华传播,传教士最终对其表示出极大失望,痛惜其“帝制自为”。短短几年间,传教士经历了对袁世凯由“希望”变“失望”的复杂情感过程。
At the beginning of the Republic of China, the missionaries of the United States in China, due to the need of the gospel propaganda and Yuan Shikai’s good intentions toward Christianity, favored them with great expectations and accepted their appointment as President of the Republic of China. Most missionaries believed that Yuan Shih-kai was the strongest and most qualified person among the Chinese leaders for the time being and was the man who could best command the country and bring order and stability to potential chaos when the country was in trouble. It was the best candidate to save China from the crisis after the 1911 Revolution. Therefore, it defended its autocratic and dictatorship and supported its repression of the “second revolution.” However, with the restoration of monarchy by Yuan Shikai and the transformation of Confucianism into a state religion that affected the spread of Christianity in China, the missionaries finally expressed their great disappointment and deplored their “monarchy”. In just a few years, the missionaries underwent complicated emotional processes of Yuan Shikai from “hope ” “disappointment ”.