In this article a Protestant view of the imitation of Christ is offered as part of participation in Christ and as taking place in ordinary life (Luther, Calvin). Imitating Christ as moral exemplar does not mean copying him, as a human effort to emulate a high moral ideal, but loving the neighbour as he did in the particularities of one's own life. It is a striving rooted in Christ's lowliness, which makes imitation an achievable though demanding ethical requirement for each individual (Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer). Imitation is a ‘putting on Christ’ that is neither a hypocritical pretending nor a pretentious replication but a striving to re-present Christ in an authentic Christian existence.

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既不虚伪也不复制：新教对效法基督作为道德榜样的描述

在这篇文章中，新教对模仿基督的观点被提供为参与基督并发生在日常生活中的一部分（路德，加尔文）。效法基督作为道德模范并不意味着模仿他，作为人类效仿高尚道德理想的努力，而是像他在自己生活的特殊性中所做的那样爱邻人。这是一种植根于基督卑微的努力，这使得模仿成为可以实现但对每个人都提出了苛刻的道德要求（克尔凯郭尔，朋霍费尔）。模仿是“穿上基督”，既不是虚伪的伪装，也不是自命不凡的复制，而是努力在真实的基督徒生活中再现基督。