clement
03-30-2006, 11:13 AM
打了一段作者自己撰寫的短介出來，希望你會對本書有興趣。著重是我加上的。 :)
Those for whom this book is written (pp. 19-21)
This book is written for all those who, for any reason at all, honestly and sincerely want to know what Christianity, what being a Christian, really means.
It is written also for those:
- who do not believe, but nevertheless seriously inquire;
- who did believe, but are not satisfied with their unbelief;
- who do believe, but feel insecure in their faith;
- who are at a loss, between belief and unbelief;
- who are skeptical, both about their convictions and about their doubts.
It is written then for Christians and atheists, Gnostics and agnostics, pietists and positivists, lukewarm and zealous Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox.
Even outside the Churches, are there not many people who are not content to spend a whole lifetime approaching the fundamental questions of human existence with mere feelings, personal prejudices and appraently plausible explanations?
And are there not today also in all Churches many people:
- who do not want to remain at the childhood stage in their faith,
- who expect more than a new exposition of the words of the Bible or a new denominational catechism,
- who can no longer find any final anchorage in infallible formulas of Scripture (Protestants), of Tradition (Orthodox), of the Magisterium [教會訓導] (Catholics)?
These are all people:
- who will not accept Christianity at a reduced price, who will not adopt outward conformism and a pretense of adaptation in place of ecclesiastical traditionalism,
- but who are seeking a way to the uncurtailed truth of Christianity and Christian existence, unimpressed by ecclesiastical doctrinal constraints on the right or ideological whims on the left.
[...]
... The present work is simply an attempt by somewone convinced of the cause of Christianity, without proselytizing zeal or theological lyricism, without stale scholasticism or modern theological Chinese, to produce a relevant and opportune introduction to being a Christian...
[...]
... It is an attempt, in the midst of an epoch-making upheaval of the Church's doctrine, morality and discipline, to discover what is permanent: what is different from other world religions and modern humanisms; and at the same time what is common to the separated Christian Churches...
Those for whom this book is written (pp. 19-21)
This book is written for all those who, for any reason at all, honestly and sincerely want to know what Christianity, what being a Christian, really means.
It is written also for those:
- who do not believe, but nevertheless seriously inquire;
- who did believe, but are not satisfied with their unbelief;
- who do believe, but feel insecure in their faith;
- who are at a loss, between belief and unbelief;
- who are skeptical, both about their convictions and about their doubts.
It is written then for Christians and atheists, Gnostics and agnostics, pietists and positivists, lukewarm and zealous Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox.
Even outside the Churches, are there not many people who are not content to spend a whole lifetime approaching the fundamental questions of human existence with mere feelings, personal prejudices and appraently plausible explanations?
And are there not today also in all Churches many people:
- who do not want to remain at the childhood stage in their faith,
- who expect more than a new exposition of the words of the Bible or a new denominational catechism,
- who can no longer find any final anchorage in infallible formulas of Scripture (Protestants), of Tradition (Orthodox), of the Magisterium [教會訓導] (Catholics)?
These are all people:
- who will not accept Christianity at a reduced price, who will not adopt outward conformism and a pretense of adaptation in place of ecclesiastical traditionalism,
- but who are seeking a way to the uncurtailed truth of Christianity and Christian existence, unimpressed by ecclesiastical doctrinal constraints on the right or ideological whims on the left.
[...]
... The present work is simply an attempt by somewone convinced of the cause of Christianity, without proselytizing zeal or theological lyricism, without stale scholasticism or modern theological Chinese, to produce a relevant and opportune introduction to being a Christian...
[...]
... It is an attempt, in the midst of an epoch-making upheaval of the Church's doctrine, morality and discipline, to discover what is permanent: what is different from other world religions and modern humanisms; and at the same time what is common to the separated Christian Churches...