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>>8310931
the god delusion

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>>8310931
>2016
>believing in the Christian God

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>>8310931
>2016
>Not having a Nietzsche phone strap

>>8310931
Probably Jesus of Nazareth and Immigration of Christ.

>>8310931
>being Orthodox

You're the exact sort of edgy contrarian who would've been an atheist if you'd been at this stage in your life a decade ago.

>>8311015
this

>i converted to orthodoxy because i treat religion as a LARP session

>>8310931
could you share it?
can't find it

>>8311015
The Orthodox Church is the one founded by Christ. Of course that is edgy and contrarian to all other "Christians"

>>8311034
>>8311034
Don't know where you can read it online, I borrowed it from my parish. But it's really good, especially for how brief it is (like 200 pages). It covers a ton of thinkers on Christology, both heretics and orthodox, and how they influenced terminology and arrived at their conclusions and clashed with each other.

>>8311004
>Immigration of Christ

>>8310941
Honestly, I'm not religious at all, but I often find myself defending Christianity because of the culture more than anything else.

I'm also not OP.

>>8311004
>Immigration of Christ

He has to go back.

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>>8311034
can't find it either, a shame. They do have this over at genlib, might give it a read.

Also, more religious/christian recommendations? What about that book by Ratzinger about Jesus, any good?

>>8311257
>book by Ratzinger about Jesus
I haven't read it, but it's on all those bread pill list infographics, must be alright.

Cur Deus Homo by Anselm

Better than his Proslogion and Monologium imo

>>8311257
>>8311281
The Ratzinger is good. Simple style but there's real depth there.

I think Hans Urs von Balthasar is still the best Catholic theologian of the 20th century.

>>8311257
Jesus of Nazareth is very good, some of the best theology you'll find.
I recommend him in general as an author.

>>8311004
>>8312778
sorry to be such a pleb, but who's the author? There's a ton of books under that name.

>>8313276
Joseph Ratzinger, as seen in the conversation above.

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>>8311015
>tfw you can't earnestly choose to become an orthodox christian as a non-slav or non-greek in 2016 because everyone just thinks you're a larping edgelord
>tfw you can't go to church with your countrymen because all the orthodox churches are russian diaspora

>>8311572
what would you recommend of Balthazar?

>>8313304
Antioch are the main Church for converts, in the West most Antiochian parishes are more than half converts (clergy included) and in the native tongue. They have a lot of evangelism going on

>Not Jon Sobrino
I bet you also believe in Hell

>>8313812
His seven volume series about theological aesthetics
Also "Love Alone Is Credible"
Karl Rahner is another excellent theologian, but I'm with the other anon who said Von Balthasar is the best.

Balthasar was the most patrician human of the 20th century

>>8314164
what about his book called prayer by balthasar?

>>8314262
Pretty good, a very nice entrypoint for Balthasar. You can get to the Glory volumes later.

>>8314287
cool cuz i ordered that with graveyard clay

>>8313983
Not in Scandinavia it ain't, all russian with a few albanian and greek parishes here and there.

>>8314164
Karl Rahner is a massive heretic.

>>8314247
>>8314164
Are there any Balthasar books available as epubs? Link, please?

>>8314975
Look on libgen, if ir isn't there, bookz.

>>8311015
this is true desu

>>8310961
Where do I get this

>>8313304
>non-slav or non-greek

There's also us, Romanians, but we were pretty Slavicized for a few good centuries (as were the Greeks), so yeah.

Also, orthodoxy as practiced here is more of a superstition than a religion. You don't want to get into that. Besides, I don't think you can be a true "Orthodox" if you weren't born hereabouts. It would be like trying to become a samurai or something.

>>8315520
>I don't think you can be a true "Orthodox" if you weren't born hereabouts. It would be like trying to become a samurai or something.
But that's the thing, for me it's not about culture in any way, it is about Truth.

>>8314908
how so?

>>8314164

Seconding Love Alone is Credible.

Read it in high school and it blew my mind. I wonder where my copy is...

>>8313304
>tfw pure heathen American but have extremely Russian/Slavic features
>tfw first name is a term from Orthodox Christianity
I could treat it entirely like a LARPing session and still blend in perfectly. Genuinely interested in it as I've come to realize how awfully slack and ineffectual American Protestantism truly is though.