Tim Keller- The Wounded Spirit

You are more complex than reductionistic NLP and modern psychology can manage – only God offers the full multidimensional repairs you truly need

Every book on emotional and psychological therapy is reductionistic.  No other book treats you as truly complex you are, as the Bible.

You are NOT just a body.  NOT just emotions.  Not just your will.  Not just your conscience.  It’s a complex mixture of those and more things and you cannot possibly properly treat yourself by just one of the ways offered on the market.

Only God your real creator can see EVERYTHING and can truly see through you and understand what you really need.

Excerpt: “What is the tree of life?  It represents not just endless eternal life but FULLNESS of life, of absolute satiation of the deepest desires.  Creative desires to accomplish things, aesthetic desires for beauty, romantic and relational desires for love, epistomic desires for knowledge, etc. and the tree of life represents absolute satiation a million times over a million times magnified of the amount you think you’d want, and that’s the tree of life.  But, …”

About R. Lin

依靠主11年。感謝主給我們好老師和好教材,欲將在北美聽到的講道以及課文翻譯成中文與更多朋友分享。提姆凱勒有一句極有趣的話:文是為福音所造。"The ultimate purpose of language is the Gospel." - Tim Keller 福音美兮,願我在這裡的拙文能同大家享受也分享上帝的福音。 現職建築工程業界,禱告順服給上帝使用。 C.S. Lewis Institute Fellow (Chicago Chapter) 魯益師研究院 同仁 Registered Translator in British Columbia (Chinese to English); Translator and interpreter of English to Chinese literature Enthusiast of Christian apologetics, art, culture, history, literature, religion, science, philosophy, design, music, and thoughtful living.
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