/lit/ - Literature

>>10278919
I enjoyed Feser's book on Aquinas and some of his blogposts are interesting but he certainly doesn't rank as one of the "greatest", let alone one of the "the great". He doesn't strike me as particularly mature, and he falls victim to the same sin of intellectual pride that tends to befall Catholic converts. Even when I was a Catholic myself, the obstinacy of Catholic writers "who've got it all figured out" and devote too many of their words to shitting on le DUMB moderns rubbed me the wrong way.

Feser provides a solid, cogent description of Thomist metaphysics for our age but seems to fail to properly address Enlightenment criticism of Aristotelianism, apparently dismissing it out of hand the same way we do Aquinas. His treatment of Hume's theories on causation is enlightening but unconvincing. 'Intelligibility' is a strangely common idol among Scholastic writers, for whom the mystery of divinity apparently means nothing more than a lack of knowledge, rather than of even the ability to comprehend like it were a natural thing within the created physical universe. Scholastic writers tend to demand that God be perfectly logical - not since God is beholden to logic, but since what we call logic is a necessary property of Godliness, or 'emanates' from him, or some such thing. The Scholastic will shut down at the slightest suggestion that the rules of causality as we know them are not absolute. Brute fact is not within their vocabulary.

His association with American conservatism bores me, too.

Warning, pure neurotic self-spillage

I feel completely lost. I overthink everything. I never feel as if I am writing "properly", and can't decide whether this is a completely baseless notion or if I really need guidance. I have OCD and depression. Should I just write whatever? I feel worried that I waste my muses when I write about things that I want to express properly. Knausgaard said he wrote as if possessed by a demon, trance-like and uncritically, but also mentioned, if I'm remembering right, the experience/maturity he needed to write his confessional books. Should I write about my life and what I know? Will I spoil and alter my memories? Are there things I should let ripen?

>>8879130

Check out The Catholic Catechism: A Contemporary Catechism of the Teachings of the Catholic Church by John Hardon, S.J.

**Don't confuse this with the official "Catechism of the Catholic Church" which isn't really meant for laymen.

>>8648063
Omeros.
an epic poem by Derek Walcott, using The Iliad as an allegorical framework similar to the way Ulysses pulled from The Odyssey. Earned Walcott the Nobel Prize. Title is the original Greek for 'Homer'.

/lit/, where should I start with Flannery?

>>6826777
Not if you aspire to orthodoxy; it is a throughly gnostic texts. Also, it is rather abstruse, although it is an interesting read if you have the patience.

I haven't read it myself, but my theologian friend says the That Sources of Christian Ethics by Servais Pinckaers is a must-read if you are at all interested in moral theology.

Daily reminder that transubstantiation is valid

What are some good beginners books in theology? Preferably from a Catholic or Orthodox point of view. I'm interested in the basics, such as understanding the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Eucharist.