【摘要】 大卫·贾斯帕现为格拉斯哥大学文学院教授、副院长。1980年他在达拉莫大学创建了文学与神学学会。从那时起直到本世纪初,该学会成功地举办了一系列的国际研讨会,并因此而成为欧洲神学和文学跨学科研究的摇篮,贾斯帕本人也就成为了当下这个领域内的领军人物。他著述甚丰,代表作包括《神圣的荒漠:宗教、文学、艺术和文化》和《诠释学概要》等,近期的研究课题包括:《从现代主义到后现代主义》(2003年)、《从跨学科到多学科》(2003年)、《文学:批评研究与宗教研究》(2004年)、《文学研究与神学研究》(2007年)。另外,他还是多套丛书和学术期刊的主编,如"文学与神学研究丛书"(该丛书已经由麦克米兰公司出版了30辑),以及《文学与神学》杂志等。2007年夏,在温州举办的"神学、汉学与文化研究:第四届神学与人文学暑期国际研讨班"上,贾斯帕作了题为"当代基督教神学与人文学和文化"的讲座,该访谈是在那个讲座基础上的一个拓展,话题更集中于神学与现当代西方文学的关系。在贾斯帕看来,一方面,作为一种合法性和整一性力量的圣经元叙事已经遭到了瓦解,因此"经营神学"需要找到新的出路;另一方面,基督教神学和后现代主义之间又有不少相似之处,与其说后现代主义是对宗教的背离,毋宁说后现代主义是向更为古老的宗教的一种回归。无论是哪一种情形,文学都为当代人提供了一个重新思考和感知的"空间"。更多还原

【Abstract】 David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology and Associate Dean for Postgraduates at the University of Glasgow. He was founder of the Conference on Literature and Religion at Durham University in 1980. Since then a series of international meetings have been organized every other year by the conference, which becomes the cradle for the inter-disciplined study of literature and theology in contemporary Europe. David Jasper himself is, therefore, one of the most distinguished scholars of this field from Europe. His publications are abundant and among his masterpieces are The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture (2004) and A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics (2004). His recent research focuses on such topics as "From Modernism to Postmodernism" (2003), "From Inter-discipline to Multidiscipline" (2003), "Literature: Critical Theory and Religious Studies" (2004), and "The Study of Literature and Theology" (2007). David Jasper is also editor of a series of books and journals, such as Studies in Literature and Religion, of which thirty volumes have been published by Macmillan, and the journal Literature and Theology. This interview took place after the summer institute on "Theology, Sinology and Cultural Studies" in Wenzhou, China, at which Jasper delivered a lecture entitled "Contemporary Christian Theology through the Arts and Culture." The interview is an extension of that lecture focusing more on the relationship between theology and postmodernist literature. According to Jasper, the meta-narrative of the Bible as a legitimating and unifying force is disintegrated on the one hand, so new ways should be adopted to "do theology." On the other hand there exist some similarities between Christian theology and postmodernism. Therefore, postmodernism is not a turn away from religion, but a return to certain very ancient religious ways. In either case, literature provides modern people with "a space" to revise their thinking and perception.更多还原