长时间以来,评论界对如何认定中国文学范畴中的宗教文学和有宗教身份的作家、如何在主流文学框架中把握宗教文学的主旨,以及如何营造一个良性的宗教文学阅读环境与评论环境,一直力不从心。阅读中国社会科学出版社2010年出版的季玢的《野地里的百合花:论新时期以来的中国基督教文学》一书,有耳目一新的感觉。这部书全面而深刻地展现了新时期以来中国大陆、台湾和香港、海外华人作家三部分中国基督教文学的面貌,以详略兼得的方法将六大书写形态归类分析,以学理性的命名方式提出中国基督教文学、中国圣经文学、中国灵修文学、中国救赎文学等概念,并以具体的作家创作来求证其存在及意义价值。此书着实为一部具有重要学术价值与现实意义的拓荒之著,引发时人进一步思索与探究。 For a long time, the critics of how to identify the Chinese literature in the field of religious literature and religious identity of the writer, how to grasp the theme of religious literature in the mainstream literature framework, and how to create a benign religious literature reading environment and comment environment, has been Unsuccessful. Read the book “Lily in the Wild: Chinese Christian Literature since the New Era” published by China Social Sciences Press in 2010 by Jianye, a fresh and refreshing feeling. This book comprehensively and profoundly shows the appearance of Chinese Christian literature in three parts of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and overseas Chinese since the new era. It categorized and analyzed the six written forms in a detailed and concurrent way, Naming style proposed the concepts of Chinese Christian literature, Biblical literature in China, Chinese spiritual literature, Chinese salvation literature, and to prove its existence and significance with the creation of a specific writer. This book is really a pioneering work of great academic value and practical significance, triggering further thinking and exploration.