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本文旨在探讨加尔文如何用神意概念建构出一种关于现代政治的秩序化理解。根据加尔文的分析,上帝不仅创造了世界,而且还通过具体神意对万物进行持续的治理。在此意义上,世界秩序就是治理秩序。而世俗政府恰是神圣治理机制的典型构成部分,政治恰是上帝统治世界的工具之一,君主与官长恰是作为治理者的上帝所召唤和配置的职份。政治秩序化的实现同时取决于统治者的管理和人民对治理的服从。
The purpose of this article is to explore how Calvin used the concept of divine ideas to construct a sort of comprehension of modern politics. According to Calvin’s analysis, God has not only created the world, but also continually governs all things with concrete divine. In this sense, the world order is the governing order. And secular government is just one of the typical components of the sacred governance mechanism. Politics is just one of the tools that God rules the world. The monarch and the governor just happen to be summoned and deployed by God as governor. The realization of political order depends on both the ruler’s management and the people’s obedience to governance.