For lack of a comprehensive understanding of the Christian spirit,humanitarianism and their relationships,Ma Xuan s view on Thomas Hardy s religious ideas is not convincing.

The cause of this "wasteness" lies in a twofold absence of humanism and Christian spirit in modern times.

In the historical tendency of the combination of the Church with the rich, Clement of Alexanderia (150 -215 AD) tried in his book to reconstruct the Christian spirit and reconcile it with the desire for material possession.

The Dichotomy and Conflicts Between Humanity and Christianity;

The Soul of Christianity in George Herbert s Poetry;

This paper holds that in the current world, with the intercultural communication is getting momentum nowadays in the twenty first century, and that there is a ramping trend of fusion between Confucianism and Christianity, East and West, old and new etc.

From the religious point of view,his view of nature is linked up intrinsically the Christian spirit that affected him.

He focused on the religious spirit, especially the cultural value of Christian spirit instead of the faith of god.

Hardy wrote the vast majority of his works after he had lost his religious faith,so the fact that he in his works approved of both his characters pursuit of their ideals and rights and the values of charity,forgiveness,sacrifice and purity indicates that he was a humanitarian who believed that secular Christian spirit-the Christian spir.