Let us dare to say that God is a particular Thing. Once He was the only Thing: but He is creative. He made other things to be. He is not those other things. He is not 'universal being': if He were there would be no creatures, for a generality can make nothing. He is 'absolute being'--or rather the Absolute Being -- in the sense that He alone exists in His own right. But there are things which God is not. In that sense He has a determinate character. Thus He is righteous, not amoral; creative, not inert. The Hebrew writings here observe an admirable balance. Once God says simply I AM, proclaiming the mystery of self-existence. But times without number He says 'I am the Lord'--I, the ultimate Fact, have this determinate character, and not that. And men are exhorted to 'know the Lord', to dis... (查看原文)
God is basic Fact or Actuality, the source of all other facthood. At all costs therefore He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. If He exists at all, He is the most concrete thing there is, the most individual, 'organised and minutely articulated'. He is unspeakable not by being indefinite but by being too definite for the unavoidable vagueness of language, The words incorporeal and impersonal are misleading, because they suggest that He lacks some reality which we possess. (查看原文)
前半部分感觉有点绕,后半部分则读得热血沸腾,特别是The Grand Miracle这一章。之前读过一句话,用来形容这个世界的grand miracle再贴切不过(就是那位人子的一生):“Out of the womb and out of the Tomb”。另外感谢C.S. Lewis Institute KNOWING & DOING上的两篇文章帮我梳理了下整本书的精华部分:C.S. Lew...前半部分感觉有点绕,后半部分则读得热血沸腾,特别是The Grand Miracle这一章。之前读过一句话,用来形容这个世界的grand miracle再贴切不过(就是那位人子的一生):“Out of the womb and out of the Tomb”。另外感谢C.S. Lewis Institute KNOWING & DOING上的两篇文章帮我梳理了下整本书的精华部分:C.S. Lewis on Miracles (by Art Lindsley),C.S. Lewis on Miracles: Why They Are Possible and Significant (by Bill Smith)。从这两篇文章里能寻踪觅迹到许多好东西呦(展开)
2 有用 yihan爱书橱 2013-06-03 21:50:59
完全颠覆我的预期,好看得超乎想象!Lewis的想象力与比喻在这本书里发挥到了极致,看完这书感觉就像去天堂旅游了一把!
0 有用 风物岂非痴 2023-08-24 20:51:04 甘肃
前半部分关于自然与超自然的论述比较严谨,后半部分涉及宗教的的内容看得不是很理解。 Ps.感谢中文译者
0 有用 飘 2023-09-13 17:17:39 北京
读罢,未有强烈感受,不信邪,遂重读ing
1 有用 恩加笑嘻嘻 2023-01-15 16:48:02 浙江
前半部分感觉有点绕,后半部分则读得热血沸腾,特别是The Grand Miracle这一章。之前读过一句话,用来形容这个世界的grand miracle再贴切不过(就是那位人子的一生):“Out of the womb and out of the Tomb”。另外感谢C.S. Lewis Institute KNOWING & DOING上的两篇文章帮我梳理了下整本书的精华部分:C.S. Lew... 前半部分感觉有点绕,后半部分则读得热血沸腾,特别是The Grand Miracle这一章。之前读过一句话,用来形容这个世界的grand miracle再贴切不过(就是那位人子的一生):“Out of the womb and out of the Tomb”。另外感谢C.S. Lewis Institute KNOWING & DOING上的两篇文章帮我梳理了下整本书的精华部分:C.S. Lewis on Miracles (by Art Lindsley),C.S. Lewis on Miracles: Why They Are Possible and Significant (by Bill Smith)。从这两篇文章里能寻踪觅迹到许多好东西呦 (展开)
1 有用 walden同学 2023-01-10 22:30:38 北京
感谢中文译者朋友