……事。所以，婚姻不仅仅是两个人住在一个屋檐下，而是两个人一起演变成全新的共同体。关于这种理念，我见过的最好范例之一就是《A Severe Mercy》这本书的第二章。作者笔下描写的彼此交融简直完整到了令人惊叹的地步。——婚礼筹备起来再费劲，也只不过是个起跑线。千万别误以为自己已经……
…thing. So, marriage isn't just two people living in the same place. It's two people becoming something new together. One of the best examples I've seen of this idea is the second chapter of the book A Severe Mercy. The togetherness the author writes about is ridiculously complete. - The wedding, as much work as it takes to put together, is just the starting line. Don't make the mistake of thinking that you've…
我非常感同身受。Sheldon Vanauken 写的《A Severe Mercy》是我最喜欢的书之一，甚至没有之一。那部作品的一个重要主题是“化为永恒的瞬间（moments made eternity）”，这里的永恒既蕴含着一种超越时间的无尽感，也包含着……
I sympathize with this a lot. "A Severe Mercy" by Sheldon Vanauken is one of my favorite books, if not my favorite. A significant theme of that work is "moments made eternity," where eternity is used to connote both a sense of timelessness and of…
……很早就知道了，不过我在1970年代末去伯克利念书的时候，常去第一长老会教堂，当时的牧师是 Earl Palmer。他在讲道坛上大赞《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》、Sheldon Vanauken 的《A Severe Mercy》以及《星球大战》。他对《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》最喜欢的部分是“宗教大法官”那一章；我当时读那一章读得很痛苦，但总的来说觉得这本书收获极大，尤其是因为它提供了一个窗口……
…up on it early on, but when I was going to Berkeley in the late 1970s, I attended First Presbyterian Church, where Earl Palmer was pastor. He extolled The Brothers Karamazov, Sheldon Vanauken's book A Severe Mercy, and Star Wars from the pulpit. His favorite part of TBK was the Grand Inquisitor chapter; I had to slog through that, but overall found the book quite rewarding, not least of all because it is a window…
……事。所以，婚姻不仅仅是两个人住在一个屋檐下，而是两个人一起演变成全新的共同体。关于这种理念，我见过的最好范例之一就是《A Severe Mercy》这本书的第二章。作者笔下描写的彼此交融简直完整到了令人惊叹的地步。——婚礼筹备起来再费劲，也只不过是个起跑线。千万别误以为自己已经……
…thing. So, marriage isn't just two people living in the same place. It's two people becoming something new together. One of the best examples I've seen of this idea is the second chapter of the book A Severe Mercy. The togetherness the author writes about is ridiculously complete. - The wedding, as much work as it takes to put together, is just the starting line. Don't make the mistake of thinking that you've…
我非常感同身受。Sheldon Vanauken 写的《A Severe Mercy》是我最喜欢的书之一，甚至没有之一。那部作品的一个重要主题是“化为永恒的瞬间（moments made eternity）”，这里的永恒既蕴含着一种超越时间的无尽感，也包含着……
I sympathize with this a lot. "A Severe Mercy" by Sheldon Vanauken is one of my favorite books, if not my favorite. A significant theme of that work is "moments made eternity," where eternity is used to connote both a sense of timelessness and of…
……很早就知道了，不过我在1970年代末去伯克利念书的时候，常去第一长老会教堂，当时的牧师是 Earl Palmer。他在讲道坛上大赞《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》、Sheldon Vanauken 的《A Severe Mercy》以及《星球大战》。他对《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》最喜欢的部分是“宗教大法官”那一章；我当时读那一章读得很痛苦，但总的来说觉得这本书收获极大，尤其是因为它提供了一个窗口……
…up on it early on, but when I was going to Berkeley in the late 1970s, I attended First Presbyterian Church, where Earl Palmer was pastor. He extolled The Brothers Karamazov, Sheldon Vanauken's book A Severe Mercy, and Star Wars from the pulpit. His favorite part of TBK was the Grand Inquisitor chapter; I had to slog through that, but overall found the book quite rewarding, not least of all because it is a window…