Good morning/whatever, /lit/. What book would you recommend

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2016-01-12 20:35:51 Post No. 7577435
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:35:51 Post No. 7577435 [Report]

Good morning/whatever, /lit/.

What book would you recommend me (I consider myself intelligent) to help me become Christian?

I've been a christian before. Then I read about Tantra and Buddhism, a lot Nietzsche, and a bunch of philosophical stuff, and I seem to me unable to believe anymore.

I want an intellectual approach to Christianism.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:38:36 Post No.7577451
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:38:36 Post No.7577451 [Report]

Kierkegaard

Thomas Merton

The author of the aesthetics of Christian truth: forgot the subtitle and the author. Just look it up on Amazon

Nuanced and intellectual religious authors are the best

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:40:57 Post No.7577460
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>>7577451
This. Kierkegaard is for people like us - Intelligent, Witty, and a wicked sense of humor.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:41:12 Post No.7577462
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:41:12 Post No.7577462 [Report]

A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:42:12 Post No.7577465
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:42:12 Post No.7577465 [Report]

Barabbas

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:43:14 Post No.7577473
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>>7577451
This?
>>7577460
I've read Fear and tremble, I liked it a lot but I didn't really empathise with his passion... and he didn't convince me much. Im planning a reread tho.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:51:06 Post No.7577499
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:51:06 Post No.7577499 [Report]

OP here. Pessoa was a gnostic christian. Would you recommend me a book to learn about that?

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:52:42 Post No.7577505
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>>7577465
surely you don't barabbas by obscure belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode, do you?

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:54:27 Post No.7577507
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>>7577499
The gnostic gospels by Elaine pagel is considered the masterwork on gnostic history. Otherwise, being a monotheistic deist in a Unitarian church would be pretty close to a modern Gnosticism.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 20:55:34 Post No.7577509
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>>7577473
Yup. He's got articles online that you can read beforehand. I'm not Christian or atheist but he's the only Christian that if say thoroughly BTFOs atheist arguments about the non-existence of God

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>>7577435
>Christianism

Anonymous 2016-01-12 21:00:20 Post No.7577527
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 21:00:20 Post No.7577527 [Report]

Girard, Scheler and MacIntyre to cleanse out the Nietzsche, Chesterton and Fr. Seraphim Rose to cleanse out the eastern rubbish.

Rowan Williams - The Wound of Knowledge: Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St. John of the Cross
Denys Turner - The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism

>>7577499
St. Irenaeus - Adversus Haereses
the first chapter of the Gospel of John
Eric Voegelin - The New Science of Politics

Anonymous 2016-01-12 21:04:13 Post No.7577549
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>>7577527
Thanks, Im saving all those, will research about them.
Are you a christian?

Anonymous 2016-01-12 21:07:51 Post No.7577564
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>>7577507
>>7577509
Thank you anons

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>>7577435
The following

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>>7577549
Yes, Lutheran

Anonymous 2016-01-12 21:17:23 Post No.7577603
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>>7577527
You just recommended me two books that would position me AGAINST gnosticism? I mean, those two authors seem to criticise it. If I want to know how A is, I dont ask someone who believes B... Is this a high level of trolling?

Anonymous 2016-01-12 21:18:23 Post No.7577612
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>>7577549
You might also want to check out Edward Feser's The Last Superstition for a scholastic perspective on the new atheism

Anonymous 2016-01-12 21:21:53 Post No.7577634
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>>7577612
It looks really interesting

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 21:24:37 Post No.7577649
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>>7577644
Kek

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