简·奥斯丁对卫斯理之问的回应与超越
刘琦红, 刘炜, 刘海玲
河北经贸大学 外语教学部, 河北 石家庄 050061
起止页码: 56--59页
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摘要：
二百多年前，英国新教卫斯理宗创始人约翰·卫斯理对于工业革命影响下的英国宗教精神衰微的状况表达了自己的疑问和忧虑。作为基督教作家的简·奥斯丁，抓住了这一重大社会问题，在小说《曼斯菲尔德庄园》中，展现了庄园主托马斯爵士及其次子埃德蒙和养女范妮对新教入世苦行主义伦理思想的坚守、长子汤姆和两个女儿玛丽亚及茱莉娅等人对这一伦理思想的背离及产生的恶果，深刻探讨了新教入世苦行主义伦理思想的内涵，从而实现了对卫斯理之问的回应与超越。
Jane Austen's Response to and Transcendence of the Doubt on the Decline of Methodism Raised by John Wesley
LIU Qi-hong, LIU Wei, LIU Hai-ling
Section of Foreign Languages Teaching, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050061, China
Abstract:
More than 200 years ago, John Wesley, the English preacher and co-founder of Methodism, raised his doubt on the decline of Methodism under the influence of Industrial Revolution. As a writer with belief in Protestantism, Jane Austen focused on that issue in her novel Mansfield Park, in which the Protestant ethic of worldly asceticism is deeply explored through detailed representation of its being scrupulously abided by Sir Thomas Bertram (the head of the house of Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram (his second son) and Fanny Price (his adoptive daughter), and of his other children's deviation from it and their corruption. In this way, Jane Austen profoundly probes into the connotation of Protestantism's asceticism ethical thought, thus realizing the response and transcendence to the doubt on the decline of Methodism by John Wesley.
收稿日期: 2022-3-6
基金项目: 河北省社科基金项目《简·奥斯丁小说的伦理思想研究》（HB 12 WX 00）
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