In the biblical creation story human beings are depicted as beings ejected from the true home given to them in creation and entrapped in the dynamics of their flight from God. Franz Rosenzweig suggested that modern life is best understood as a type of chronic living death characterized by an animate but nevertheless sterile experience of loss. Following Eric Santner's presentation of this theme in Rosenzweig, this article will explore what it might mean to recover a sense of the goodness of place and particularity. I will examine Santner's suggestion that to become present to ‘place’ is to have undergone the ‘undeadening’ intervention of another person, who offers us an exit route in the midst of the tangle of our lived lives. I will then show how the main lines of his analysis both parallel and offer ways to sharpen important aspects of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's account in Creation and Fall of the dynamics of the Fall and the healing of creatures. Human beings are depicted by Bonhoeffer as in need of being transformed into creatures, a theological insight resting on a complex account of creation, and which I will suggest, in conclusion, is a particularly important theme of a Christian gospel that can speak to a world saturated by the desire to be elsewhere.

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关于成为生物：在一个分心的世界中被召唤

在圣经的创世故事中，人类被描述为被逐出创造时给予他们的真正家园并陷入逃离上帝的动态之中的生物。Franz Rosenzweig 认为，现代生活最好被理解为一种慢性活死，其特征是有生命的但仍然是枯燥的失去体验。继埃里克·桑特纳 (Eric Santner) 在 Rosenzweig 中对这一主题的介绍之后，本文将探讨恢复对地方和特殊性的美好感可能意味着什么。我将研究桑特纳的建议，即在场到“地方”就是经历了另一个人的“不死”干预，他为我们在纷繁复杂的生活中提供了一条退出途径。然后，我将展示他的分析的主线如何平行并提供方法来加强迪特里希·邦霍费尔 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) 在《创世与陨落》(Creation and Fall) 中关于堕落动力学和生物治愈的重要方面。朋霍费尔将人类描述为需要被转化为生物，这是一种基于对创造的复杂描述的神学洞察力，总而言之，我认为这是基督教福音的一个特别重要的主题，可以对世界说话渴望去别处。