It also had a major impact on religion

它还对宗教和流行文化
and popular culture.

有着重大的影响
It gave rise to a new piety,

它带来了一种新的虔诚
to cults of plague saints,

带来了瘟疫圣人的信徒
to passion plays.

带来了基督受难剧
Plague led to an outpouring of sermons and religious pamphlets,

瘟疫造成了布道和宗教小册子的泛滥
with a central theme being what we might call theodicy;

有一个中心主题我们称为神正论
that is, how do you justify God's ways towards men?

那就是你怎么向人们证明上帝是正确的
A just and loving God could be angry

公正而又仁慈的上帝可能会发怒
and punish sinners who turned from him and disobeyed.

并且惩罚远离他和不服从他的罪人
But how were priests and ministers to

但是神父和牧师怎么样才能
explain the gruesome suffering and death of innocents,

解释无辜者的可怕遭遇和死亡