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发表于2024-11-09
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi
This unforgettable memoir is a powerful graduation gift for med school students and a must read for doctors and nurses looking to empathize with their patients.
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son.
Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.
The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before.
Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live.
Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason
“I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping—she’s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate’s story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising
“This is a beautifully written, intelligent, soulful book, necessary reading for all of us who long to walk faithfully and honestly through the darkest and most desolate of seasons.”—Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author of Present Over Perfect
沒有人能代替自己,隻有自己。
評分全書寫得非常雜亂,東一塊西一塊的,不太好讀。最後的兩個附錄是亮點:1. 朋友患絕癥時,問什麼問題會惹惱人傢;2. 問什麼問題纔是閤適的。很有共鳴的一點是,很多人嘗試為你的絕癥找一個原因,好像他們說的就是真的。可並不是這樣的!第一無法證實,第二信口開河。當彆人生病時,不要隨便給人傢安一個原因。
評分全書寫得非常雜亂,東一塊西一塊的,不太好讀。最後的兩個附錄是亮點:1. 朋友患絕癥時,問什麼問題會惹惱人傢;2. 問什麼問題纔是閤適的。很有共鳴的一點是,很多人嘗試為你的絕癥找一個原因,好像他們說的就是真的。可並不是這樣的!第一無法證實,第二信口開河。當彆人生病時,不要隨便給人傢安一個原因。
評分作者似乎有些過度闡述宗教和prosperity gospel相關的觀點瞭。鬆散的寫作結構、敘事的語氣,甚至是作者思考後的結論本身,反而會讓沒有相關經曆的我陷入睏惑。很遺憾,可是確實難以共情。
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Everything Happens for a Reason pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024