Perspectives on Christian Culture

Author: Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Publish Date: 1996-03-01
Features: As one of the world's three major religions, Christianity is the crystallization of Western civilization—the Hellenistic civilization (Hebrew civilization and Greek civilization). It has formed the cultural tradition and characteristics of Western society for two thousand years and has influenced the historical development and cultural progress of vast regions around the world. Today, under the guidance of China's reform and opening-up policies, people have begun to open their doors to the world, giving rise to a surge in the study of world culture, particularly Western culture, and conducting multi-level research and comparison on the development of human civilization as a whole. It is precisely in this wave of cultural research and comparison that people have started to pay attention to and explore Christian culture, and the interest is growing ever stronger. The scope of Christian culture is extremely broad. In Western tradition, people are accustomed to referring to Western culture as "Christian culture" or "Christian civilization." This consensus stems from the significant historical role Christianity played in the formation of Western culture during the late Roman Empire and the long medieval period.