Franks Anne, Meteyard John
School of Christian Studies, Christian Heritage College, 322 Wecker Rd., Mansfield DC, Qld., 4122 Australia.
J Pastoral Care Counsel. 2007 Fall;61(3):215-22. doi: 10.1177/154230500706100306.
Richard Rohr suggests that the only way out of a person's entrapment in "normalcy, the way things are," is to be drawn into sacred space, often called liminality, where he believes all genuine transformation occurs. Liminality, from the Latin word for threshold, is the state of being betwixt and between where the old world has been left behind but we have not yet arrived at what is to come. This article attempts to develop an understanding of liminality using metaphors of wilderness, tomb, and exile as found in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. It seeks to reconcile the paradox of the apparent hiddenness of God and the concurrent opportunity to see Him in new ways that occurs in these times. Pastoral care and counseling applications for those working with people in liminal space are briefly engaged.
理查德·罗尔认为，一个人摆脱陷入“常态，即事物的现状”的唯一途径，是被带入神圣空间，通常称为阈限空间，他相信所有真正的转变都发生在这个空间里。阈限（Liminality）一词源于拉丁语中的“门槛”，是一种介于两者之间的状态，旧世界已被抛在身后，但我们尚未抵达未来之所是。本文试图运用犹太教和基督教圣经中出现的荒野、坟墓和流放等隐喻来理解阈限空间。它试图调和上帝明显隐藏的悖论，以及在这些时期同时出现的以新方式看见上帝的机会。文中还简要探讨了为处于阈限空间的人提供牧养关怀和咨询的应用。
