他似乎在所有故事的背后":纳尼亚天意的微妙之处

Q3 Arts and Humanities Journal of Inklings Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI:10.3366/ink.2024.0214
Isaac Augustine Morales, OP
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在《马和他的孩子》的结尾,当夏斯塔盲目地闯入纳尼亚时,他无意中遇到了阿斯兰,阿斯兰向他解释了阿斯兰对他的各种照顾,甚至可以追溯到这个孩子的婴儿时期。阿斯兰对沙士特的照顾可谓无微不至。然而,如果只关注这段话,人们可能会得出这样的结论:纳尼亚的天意仅仅是外部神力的干预,而生物的作用在阿斯兰管理纳尼亚的方式中几乎不起作用。通过分析刘易斯与托马斯-阿奎那的一些非虚构作品,我们可以发现刘易斯对天意的理解更为微妙。对刘易斯和阿奎那来说,天意包含了自由人的行为,但又不损害他们的完整性。善意的、冷漠的,甚至是恶毒的行为都以某种方式为上帝的宇宙计划做出了贡献。纳尼亚》也是如此,我们可以通过《银椅子》、《马和他的孩子》以及《魔法师的侄子》中的代表作来了解。在这些故事中,套用刘易斯自己关于《俄狄浦斯王》的说法,他说明了 "天意与自由意志如何结合,甚至自由意志如何成为天意的运作方式"。
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‘He seems to be at the back of all the stories’: The Subtlety of Narnian Providence
Towards the end of The Horse and His Boy, as Shasta wanders blindly into Narnia, he unknowingly encounters Aslan, who explains to him the various ways that Aslan has watched over him dating back even to the boy’s infancy. It is a beautiful account of Aslan’s care for Shasta. If one were to focus exclusively on this passage, however, one might conclude that Narnian providence is merely a matter of external divine intervention and that creaturely agency plays little role in the way Aslan governs Narnia. An analysis of some of Lewis’s non-fictional writings in conversation with Thomas Aquinas uncovers a more subtle understanding of providence. For Lewis, as for Aquinas, providence incorporates the acts of free agents without compromising their integrity. Virtuous, indifferent, and even vicious acts all contribute in some way to God’s plan for the universe. The same can be said for Narnia, as one can see through representative examples from The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, and The Magician’s Nephew. In these stories Lewis illustrates, to paraphrase his own words about Oedipus Rex, ‘how providence and free will can be combined, even how free will is the modus operandi of providence’.
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