杨东川牧师在他【宣教风云录】一系列 12 篇信息中,介绍了“自上古以迄于现今,穿插于浩瀚教会史籍中的宣教风云人物”,包括了彼得、保罗、坡旅甲、安布罗斯、耶柔米、奥古斯丁、马丁路德、加尔文、约翰卫斯理、威特腓德、威廉克里、李文斯顿、戴德生。然而,最后一篇,用杨牧师自己的话说,他介绍了一个“压轴的角色、伟大的宣教士”:史怀哲医生(Dr. Albert Schweitzer)。杨牧师引用了罗马书一章16-17节说:福音的本质,就是生命的事实。以下是杨牧的讲道大纲:
讲题:尊重生命的宣教士 – 介绍史怀哲医生
史怀哲医生 (1875-1965) 横跨十九、二十两世纪,以自己的生命见证尊重生命的课题,他多才多艺、悲天悯人、脚踏实地、亲身实践人道思想。
1. 高人指点、多才多艺;
2. 基督世家、三十而立;
3. 丛林圣人、泽及动物;
4. 和平斗士、谦恭自抑。
结论:尊重生命。(资料来源:远东广播,好牧人网站:http://sc.haomuren.org/DispCataMessages.asp?Category=09-01)
然而,问题是史怀哲医生,根本就没有基督的生命。
以下是美国 CRI Statement "基督教研究中心" 有关他的一份声明:
艾伯特. 史怀哲(Albert Schweitzer)
"史怀哲,因着他的人道主义而名声远扬。他从四十岁一直到死,都献身于非洲的医疗工作中。他在兰格伦斯建立了一所医院治疗当地的人。正如他四十岁时所说的:“从此我要沉默不语。”取而代之的,他要行动,他要实际地帮助那些缺乏医疗的贫穷人。这也许是他生命最杰出的一方面。Albert Schweitzer is best known as a great humanitarian because of the fact that he spent his life from age 40 until his death in Africa as a medical doctor at Lambgarence. He established a hospital and treated the natives there. As he said at age 40, he “was not going to speak or talk any longer.” What he was going to do was to act–to act in behalf of those poor natives who had no proper medical aid. That is one aspect of his life and probably the most well-known.
"然而,史怀哲赴非洲之前,已经因着两项成就而闻名于世了:一、他是巴赫的诠释者……,二、他是知名的神学家。他最有名的著作是“追寻历史上的耶稣”。不幸的是,他的书表明了自己不是基督徒的神学家。没错,他的神学有深远的影响力,但他显然并不持守正统的基督教神学观。他书中下的结论是:耶稣钉十字架是他自找的;并且基督也没从死里复活。史怀哲的立场是:耶稣以为他是弥赛亚,他有一个“以赛亚的自觉性(情操)”,他以为藉着自招的死亡,可以导致世界的末日。根据史怀哲,这就是他的荣耀!耶稣因着相信自己“弥赛亚的身份”而殉道了。But before he went to Africa he became widely known for two other accomplishments: one, as a great interpreter of Bach……; and also as a theologian. His best-known written work was Quest of the Historical Jesus. Unfortunately, that book betrays Schweitzer as less than a Christian theologian. He had tremendous influence on theology, but he certainly did not maintain orthodox Christian theology. He concluded that book with Jesus having brought about His own crucifixion; he also left Christ without a resurrection. Schweitzer’s position was that Jesus held the idea that He was the Messiah, that He had a “messianic consciousness” and that He thought He could bring about the end of the world by forcing His own death; that, according to Schweitzer, was His glory. Jesus died as a martyr to His belief in His “messianic character.”
"史怀哲过世前不久,参加了【国际一神论协会】,此举清楚地表明他否定耶稣的神性。这是个悲剧的下场,但也表明一个慈善人士不一定是个基督徒。尽管许多人都悲天悯人,但不见得他们都信靠基督。Just before Schweitzer’s death, he joined the International Unitarian Association, making it perfectly plain that he did not believe in Jesus’ deity. This is a great tragedy; but it shows that a person can be a humanitarian without necessarily being a Christian. Many people have been concerned with human need, even though they themselves have not been Christians.
"史怀哲生长在法国的爱尔撒斯,那里多年盛行一种信仰,称之为“莱茵神秘主义”,就是:人们在情感上信靠耶稣,但理智上却不相信,因此他们人格分裂,言行不一。很有讽刺性的是:史怀哲到了非洲,教导土人唱“耶稣爱我,我知道,因有圣经告诉我!”显然,有些土人因着史怀哲而信靠了基督,然而史怀哲自己在理性上却显然不接受基督的神性。至少可以说:史怀哲是个矛盾性的人物。Schweitzer grew up in the Alsace, in France, where a certain brand of mysticism prevailed in earlier centuries called “Rhine Mysticism.” People who adhered to that believed in Jesus in some emotional way, but they were schizophrenics. As a result, it did not become part of their philosophy of life intellectually. The irony of this is that Schweitzer went to Africa and taught the natives to sing “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” There were natives who were certainly converted by Schweitzer’s own presence there, but Schweitzer himself certainly did not hold, in any intellectual way, to the deity of Christ. Schweitzer is a paradoxical figure, to say the least.
"至于史怀哲的教育背景,他在法国、施特劳斯大学,在音乐、神学与医学三个领域,赢得了三个博士学位。As far as Schweitzer’s educational background is concerned, he earned three doctorate degrees at the University of Strausburg in France, in the areas of music, theology and medicine." (资料来源:http://www.equip.org/articles/albert-schweitzer/)
陈鸽结论:在许多宣教风云人物中,为什么杨东川牧师要介绍史怀哲(一个没有基督生命的人)作他的压轴角色呢?这令我质疑杨牧师本身的生命与信仰。
约一 2:22 谁是说谎话的呢?不是那不认耶稣为基督的吗?不认父与子的,这就是敌基督的。23 凡不认子的,就没有父;认子的,连父也有了。
参:艾伯特·史懷哲(Albert Schweitzer)维基百科:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E4%BC%AF%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E5%8F%B2%E6%87%B7%E5%93%B2