基督教在中国的传播及其对洪秀全政治思想的影响

Abstract

With the failure of the Opium War, the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing and a series of unequal treaties, had brought the huge national disaster for China people. The invasion of capitalism destroyed China’s traditional social economic structure, Chinese society had a large number of bankrupted refugee team. At the same time, the Western Christian forces spread widely in China, especially in the southeast coastal area. Early Christian thought advocated the spirit of resistance, the concept of equality and it believed the whole world are brotherhood. The thought was fitted with the suffering Chinese people, especially meeting the political need of the bankrupted refugee team. Through transforming and localizindg the Western Christianity, it affected the Hong Xiuquan to “resolutely abandoned the imperial examination, to preach the gospel”, and he made the thought himself as the ideological weapon for Chinese farmers in modern revolutionary struggle.