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For years Christians have been asking, "If you died tonight, do you know where you would go?" It turns out that many believers have been giving the wrong answer. It is not heaven. Award-winning author N. T. Wright outlines the present confusion about a Christian's future hope and shows how it is deeply intertwined with how we live today. Wright, who is one of today's premier Bible scholars, asserts that Christianity's most distinctive idea is bodily resurrection. He provides a magisterial defense for a literal resurrection of Jesus and shows how this became the cornerstone for the Christian community's hope in the bodily resurrection of all people at the end of the age. Wright then explores our expectation of "new heavens and a new earth," revealing what happens to the dead until then and what will happen with the "second coming" of Jesus. For many, including many Christians, all this will come as a great surprise. Wright convincingly argues that what we believe about life after death directly affects what we believe about life before death. For if God intends to renew the whole creation—and if this has already begun in Jesus's resurrection—the church cannot stop at "saving souls" but must anticipate the eventual renewal by working for God's kingdom in the wider world, bringing healing and hope in the present life. Lively and accessible, this book will surprise and excite all who are interested in the meaning of life, not only after death but before it.
N.T. WRIGHT is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities. As being both one of the world’s leading Bible scholars and a popular author, he has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. His award-winning books include The Case for the Psalms, How God Became King, Simply Jesus, After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, Scripture and the Authority of God, The Meaning of Jesus (co-authored with Marcus Borg), as well as being the translator for The Kingdom New Testament. He also wrote the impressive Christian Origins and the Question of God series, including The New Testament and the People of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, The Resurrection of the Son of God and most recently, Paul and the Faithfulness of God.
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读完这本书的感受,用一个词来形容,那就是“意料之外的丰盛”。起初我以为这会是一部晦涩难懂的哲学著作,毕竟书名本身就带有一种宏大的命题感,让人不禁联想到那些高高在上的学术探讨。然而,作者的笔触却异常接地气,他似乎有一双能看透人心最柔软角落的眼睛。书中探讨的许多主题,诸如面对不确定性时的焦虑感,个体在社会洪流中的迷失与挣扎,甚至是人与人之间那种复杂而微妙的连接,都被剖析得淋漓尽致。我常常读到某个段落,会猛地停下来,心中涌起一股“原来如此”的震撼感,仿佛作者将我内心深处那些模糊不清的想法,用清晰而有力的语言组织了出来。这种共鸣感是如此强烈,以至于我有时会怀疑作者是否偷窥了我的日记。它没有提供快速的解决方案,却提供了一种看待问题的全新视角,这比任何速效药都要来得持久和有效。
评分这本书的结构安排非常巧妙,逻辑链条层层递进,但又不像教科书那样板着面孔。它更像是一场精心策划的漫步,引导读者从一个熟悉的概念出发,逐步深入到更深邃的领域。我特别喜欢作者在不同章节之间设置的那些过渡段落,它们处理得极其自然,既承接了前文的重量,又为后文的展开做了铺垫,使得整本书读起来一气呵成,很少有跳跃感或断裂感。尽管内容深度足够,但作者似乎非常抗拒使用那些故作高深的术语,取而代之的是大量生动的比喻和典故,这极大地降低了理解的门槛。对于那些对同类题材感到望而却步的读者来说,这本书绝对是一个绝佳的入门。它用一种近乎温柔的姿态,邀请你参与到这场智力探险中,每一步都走得踏实而充满期待。
评分坦白讲,这本书的阅读过程充满了挑战,并非因为文字本身有多难,而是它对读者的心智要求极高。它迫使你直面一些你可能长期逃避的问题,比如你对“成功”的真正定义是什么?你愿意为什么样的信念付出代价?在某些章节,我不得不放下书本,花上几分钟时间去整理自己的思绪,因为作者提出的观点太过尖锐,直指核心,让人难以招架。我能感觉到作者在写作时投入了巨大的心力,那种对真理的执着追求,字里行间都透露着一股不妥协的劲头。然而,这种“挑战”最终带来的回报是巨大的,它像一把精密的刻刀,帮助你雕琢出更清晰的自我认知。那些读完后感觉有些沉重的地方,恰恰是这本书最有价值的部分,因为它触及了生命的本质性议题,而非肤浅的表面现象。
评分这本厚厚的书摆在案头,初看之下,其封面设计颇为内敛,没有那种哗众取宠的色彩或图案,反而散发着一种沉静的力量。我花了很长时间才真正沉下心来翻开它,一开始的几页内容读起来有些拗口,似乎作者在刻意设置一些门槛,迫使读者放慢速度,去咀咒那些看似平淡实则蕴含深意的文字。它不像那些畅销小说那样能瞬间抓住你的眼球,让你欲罢不能地翻到下一页。恰恰相反,它更像一位经验丰富的人生导师,用一种近乎絮叨的口吻,娓娓道来那些我们习以为常却又常常忽略的生活真谛。我尤其欣赏作者在叙述中那种对细节的极致捕捉,比如对于某种特定光线下光影变化的描摹,或是对某个日常场景中人物微妙心理波动的刻画,都精准得让人拍案叫绝。这种写作手法,让原本枯燥的理论探讨变得鲜活起来,仿佛你不是在阅读文字,而是亲身经历着书中所描绘的每一个瞬间。它需要的不是快速的浏览,而是深入的沉思,每一次重读,都会带来新的体悟,这种阅读体验是极其难得的。
评分我很少给一本书如此高的评价,但这本书确实做到了。它不是那种读完后合上就束之高阁的书籍,而是那种你会时不时地翻开其中的某一页,重新阅读某一段话的书。它具有极强的“回味性”。它的价值不在于提供了多少新的信息点,而在于改变了你组织这些信息点的方式。作者的叙事节奏掌握得炉火纯青,时而紧凑如骤雨,时而舒缓如长风,完全服务于他想要传达的情绪和观点。我发现自己开始不自觉地用书中的某些框架去分析生活中的具体事件,这表明这本书已经超越了单纯的文本,成功地内化为一种思考工具。对于寻求深刻见解而非娱乐消遣的读者而言,这是一次不可多得的精神滋养,它给予的并非短暂的刺激,而是持续性的滋养和启发。
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