20世纪20-40年代,天主教内出现了一次饶有意味的“统一经文”事件讨论,其中反对意见占了上风。究其原因,既有对传统经文的尊重和对语体经文的疑虑,也有对清末白话文运动语言观的延续。不过,当时亦有一些折中意见。20世纪40年代后期天主教内出现的文言译经,也体现了与“统一经文”事件一脉相承的理路。 During the 1920s and 1940s, there was a meaningful discussion of “Unification Scriptures” in the Catholic Church, in which the opposition prevailed. The reason is not only the respect of the traditional scriptures and the doubts about the scriptures, but also the continuation of the linguistic view of the vernacular movements in the late Qing Dynasty. However, there were some compromises at the time. The classical translation of Scripture appeared in the Catholicism in the late 1940s also reflects the same line of reasoning as that of the Unification Scripture.