| 英文摘要 |
"This article explores Philip K. Dick's literary theology by studying his VALIS trilogy where men's technologically-mediated living condition is shown as a simulacrum of God's divine matrix, powerful but lacking in God's transcendental holiness. The first section, on God as Zebra, discusses God portrayed in Dick's work as a vast active living intelligence system (VALIS) containing its simulacrum, men's information network; hence His alias, Zebra, something made up of a blend of two apparently similar but essentially different systems. The mundane simulation of God inevitably obscures God's holiness and conceals his presence. However, as the second section on God's nature will show, despite their apparent similarity, the divine system and its counterpart can still be distinguished by two elements, namely love and God's/VALIS's perpetual state of being living, both of which are significantly missing in men's technological system. The last section extends the thematic inquiry into God's nature by studying Dick's concealment of his Gnostic slant in the trilogy vis-à-vis God's absence from men. Considering the hermeneutic ambiguity in question, which may endlessly put readers' acts of interpretation on a par with divinity, this article reads Dick's trilogy more as a literary theology than simply as a Gnostic gospel." |
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