THE AGNOSTIC’ S TALE: A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76033
English Summary/英文概要： A thoughtful investigation into the nature of religious faith, including interviews with Professor Richard Dawkins, Sir Andrew Huxley and Martin Rees.
“Next month, it will be seven years since the death of John Rae: prize-winning novelist, newspaper columnist, public intellectual, regular on Question Time, but probably best remembered as the outspoken headteacher of Westminster (alma mater to the Deputy Prime Minister and many other establishment figures). There was a time when you could hardly turn on your TV or radio and not hear his voice, a national profile that no head since has enjoyed.
The Agnostic’s Tale is an unflinching account of a journey that he undertook in the weeks and months leading up his death when he became increasingly discontented with his lifelong “shoulder-shrugging” on the question of God’s existence. “If I wanted to call myself an agnostic,” he writes, “I would have to find a way to shock or shake my agnosticism into something approaching restless incredulity. And the sooner the better.”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对宗教信仰本质的一次深入探究，涵盖了来自理查德•道金斯教授、安德鲁•赫胥黎爵士以及马丁•里斯爵士的相关访谈。
“下个月将是获奖小说家、新闻专栏作家、公众知识分子、“问答时间”节目常驻嘉宾、同时也是最为人们所熟悉的直言不讳的西敏寺导师---约翰•雷逝世7周年纪念日。曾几何时，你只需打开电视或广播，便一定可以听到他的声音，他是全国的百科全书与档案馆，从他以后，再没有人像他那样享受这一切。”
《不可知论的故事》是对他生前旅程的无畏描述，尤其是当他最后数月和数周的工作最终导致了他的死亡，在这段时间里他开始变得极度不满足于困扰了他毕生却无力回答的问题，即上帝的存在性问题。他在书中写到“如果我想称自己为一名不可知论者，我将难以自抑的想要找到一种方法，去撼动我的不可知论信仰，使其将越来越接近怀疑论。并且该过程越快越佳。”(DC)
Awards/获奖情况：他的名字便象征着一种标志，让人不由得信服，一旦他下定决心，试图通过一系列的对话去探究某一问题，雷只需要拿起电话，拨打给诺贝尔奖的获奖科学家、英国皇家天文学家或是任何杰出的运动员，甚至是多明我会的会长提摩西•拉德克里夫,充当一名听众便可获得一切问题的答案。’
It is an indication of the cachet his name carried that, once he had decided on exploring the question through a series of conversations, Rae had only to pick up the phone to be granted an audience with Nobel Prize-winning scientists, the Astronomer Royal, any number of bishops, atheist par excellence Richard Dawkins, and the Master-General of the Dominican Order, Timothy Radcliffe.”
About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰•马尔科姆•雷曾于1970-1986年担任西敏寺学校的校长。他著有“The Custard Boys (1960)”一书，并创作有关于教育的作品，包括畅销作品《校园来信》（1987）和五本儿童书籍。作者已于2006年11月逝世。John Malcolm Rae was headmaster at Westminster School between 1970-86. He is author of The Custard Boys (1960). He has also written books on education, including the best-selling Letters from School (1987) and five books for children. He died in December 2006.
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