“将来等我们见到上帝面时,我们会发现自己早已认识他。 我们在尘世上经历一切纯真之爱时,上帝始终参与其中,他给了我们这些经历,维持其存在,每时每刻都在其间运行。 在这些经历中,凡是真正的爱,即便在尘世,也都主要来自上帝,而不是来自我们,来自我们也只是因为来自上帝。 在天国,我们不再有离弃尘世所爱之人的痛苦,也没有离弃他们的责任。 这首先是因为,我们已经从肖像转向了真人,从溪流转向了泉源,从大爱使可爱的受造物转向了大爱本身;其次是因为,我们会发现他们都在上帝里面。”
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Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.
C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.
Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.
"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.