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摘要:本文对帕斯卡尔的一句话进行了反思。他在描述基督在克西马尼园的故事时,不时地引用一句引人注目的话:“耶稣将痛苦不堪,直到世界的末了;在那段时间里,我们不能睡觉”——“jsamsus sera en agonie jusqu' las fin du monde: Il ne faut pas dormir pendant ce temps- lous”。在与列夫·舍斯托夫(Lev Shestov)的作品的密切交谈中,我探讨了一个令人不安的建议,即对于基督教信仰来说,末世之前的时间基本上是“客西马尼”的性质,也就是说,以基督自己的拯救为标志,因此也以信仰的适当斗争为标志,以唤醒它并保持警惕。对舍斯托夫来说,帕斯卡令人不安的愿景要求基督徒的生活“带着哀叹”去抵制用门徒的痛苦换取清晰理解的信心的虚假安慰。与基督的痛苦相对应的是信心的紧张;在剩下的时间里,要把理智的睡眠唤醒,这是门徒的工作。
Christ's Agony and Faith's Wakefulness—Reflections on a Remark of Pascal
Abstract:This essay reflects upon a remark of Blaise Pascal. His gloss upon the story of Christ in Gethsemane is punctuated with the arresting comment that "Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world: during that time, we must not sleep" —"Jésus sera en agonie jusqu'à las fin du monde: Il ne faut pas dormir pendant ce temps-là". In close conversation with the work of Lev Shestov, I explore the unsettling suggestion that for Christian faith the time before the eschaton is fundamentally "gethesemanean" in quality, i.e., is marked by Christ's own saving agon and so also by faith's proper struggle to awaken to it and keep vigil with it. For Shestov, Pascal's disquieting vision demands that the Christian life "seeks with lamentation" to resist the false consolation of trading the travail of discipleship for the confidence of clear understanding. To the agony of Christ there corresponds the agon of faith: it is the labour of discipleship to shake off the sleep of reason in the time that remains.
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