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Christianity had all the advantages that once made Judaism such an attractive faith without the disadvantages of circumcision and an alien law. P129
基督教由犹太教演变而成,信仰基础坚固,并拥有一些新的优势,基督教会成为非常有效的组织体系。四世纪时,罗马君王Constantine成为基督徒,传瑜全民皈依基督教。约半世纪后,罗马最后一位君王宣布基督教为国教。信仰为政治所用,又得到政治庇护而发展壮大。
希腊基督教神学家Arius:God was the only unbegotten, the only eternal, the only one without beginning, the only true, the only one who has immortality, the only wise, the only good, the only potentate. P132
柏拉图派认为上帝在“无”中创造了世界。创世纪论相信上帝从混乱中创造了世界。对古希腊思想来说,基督教是外来物。
A distinction between esoteric and exoteric truth will be extremely important in the history if God.... Not all religious truth was capable of being expressed and defined clearly and logically. P138
这就有点“拣选”的意思了,有些所信的真相,无法清除地定义和从逻辑上论证,佛也曾指出,有些境界是语言不能及的。
人们可能会局限在以人的眼光来看待上帝。TRINITY,圣父圣灵圣子三位一体,有助于避免认知绝对化。
Instead of seeing it as a statement of fact about God, it should , perhaps, be seen as a poem or a theological dance between what is believed and accepted by mere mortals about "God" and the tacit realization that any such statement or kerygma could only be provision. P143
三位一体就是一种诗意的,理论上的理解。
说理论,THEORY,东部基督教认为它是CONTEMPLATION,思考框架,概念。在西方,THEORY 却是指逻辑推理。
Saint Augustine, 被称为西方精神之父,他认为上帝是人性的核心,Thou hast made us for thyself, and out hearts are restless till they rest in thee. 汝使吾成为自己,憩于汝内,吾心方安。
我们在娃入小学时,可选两所教会学校,一个是St Augustine, 一个是 Victory Lutheran College。马丁路德是新教之父。 |
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