哈罗德·J·伯尔曼教授的名言“法律必须被信仰,否则将形同虚设”得到中国学者的广泛认同,并希望以“法律信仰”促成法治的发展。但在考察原则的一些误区引出语境化的结论。语境的差别,导致“法律信仰”的移植有很强的不确定性。因此,法治建设不能简单地期待于西方式法律信仰,而要立足于本民族实际,探索出属于我们自己的法治道路。 Prof. Harold J. Burman’s famous saying “Law must be believed, otherwise it will be the same.” It is widely recognized by Chinese scholars and hopes to promote the development of the rule of law with “legal belief ”. However, some misunderstandings in the principle of investigation lead to the conclusion of contextualization. The differences in context lead to the great uncertainty of transplantation of “legal belief”. Therefore, the construction of the rule of law can not simply look forward to Western legal faith, but must base itself on its own national reality and explore its own path of rule of law.