‘Commerce and Christianity’: The Rise and Fall of a Nineteenth-Century Missionary Slogan
‘Commerce and Christianity’: The Rise and Fall of a Nineteenth-Century Missionary Slogan
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“商业与基督教”：十九世纪传教士口号的兴衰
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10.1017/s0018246x00003320
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1985
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A. Porter
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”什么，”一些头脑简单的人可能会说，”福音和商业之间的联系吗？1860年5月，塞缪尔·威尔伯福斯主教代表大学中非使命在利兹发表演讲，他的反问非常有力，回答也同样直接。“他们之间有很大的联系。首先，除非基督教在非洲扎根，否则在非洲促进商业的希望不大;其次，除非我们能在非洲建立合法的商业，否则基督教就没有什么理由能够走上正确的道路。英国在建立联系方面的作用是非常明显的。这是将人类训练到非基督教国家永远无法达到的卓越程度的结果，赋予“生命价值”，“劳动的尊严”和“财产的安全”，结果是基督教民族将倾向于成为“财富生产民族，出口民族和商业民族”。
‘“What,” some simple-minded man might say, “is the connection between the Gospel and commerce?”’ Speaking in Leeds in May 1860 on behalf of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce was characteristically robust with his rhetorical question and no less direct in furnishing the answer. ‘There is a great connection between them. In the first place, there is little hope of promoting commerce in Africa, unless Christianity is planted in it; and, in the next place, there is very little ground for hoping that Christianity will be able to make its proper way unless we can establish a lawful commerce in the country’. Britain's part in forging the connexion was abundantly clear. It was effect of training the human race to a degree of excellence which it could never attain in non-Christian countries', giving ‘value to life’, ‘dignity to labour’ and ‘security to possession’, with the result that a Christian people would tend to be ‘a wealth-producing people, an exporting people and so a commercial people’.