/lit/ - Literature

>>13263004
>where does ''turning the other cheek''get you, whats the point of loving your enemy when that enemy hates you and wants to destroy you
It worked out pretty well for the early church.

What are some good books on the nature of revelatory truth in Christianity?

>>11120862

No joke try Orthodoxy. It has the mysticism you're craving and less legalistic dogmatism.

Orthodoxy asks you to constantly deify yourself and bask in the love and mercy of God rather than adhere to a series of laws and focus on human depravity.

>>10657440
Creationism basically only exists in America and is a relatively new phenomenon (only about 200 years old). It does not reflect the entire faith, which was producing nuanced, philosophical readings of the scriptures in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD

>>10607789
To get the deep philosophy you need to read the early Church Fathers

>>10164254
It's no sudden thing. In the early church we see more complicated understandings of the text shown many times:

>"And there are some, again, who relegate the death of Adam to the thousandth year; for since ‘a day of the Lord is a thousand years,’ he did not overstep the thousand years, but died within them, thus bearing out the sentence of his sin" -Irenaeus

>"Seven days by our reckoning, after the model of the days of creation, make up a week. By the passage of such weeks time rolls on, and in these weeks one day is constituted by the course of the sun from its rising to its setting; but we must bear in mind that these days indeed recall the days of creation, but without in any way being really similar to them" -Augustine

>"For who that has understanding will suppose that the first and second and third day existed without a sun and moon and stars and that the first day was, as it were, also without a sky? . . . I do not suppose that anyone doubts that these things figuratively indicate certain mysteries, the history having taken place in appearance and not literally"

No view has been endorsed by the church, though many views got popular. As research came out over ancient Jewish practices the use of genealogies to date an Anno Mundi in Europe made them fall out of favor (though the use of Anno Mundi became the standard in Jewish circles and mixed in Constantinople), as well as other holes in the dating of the creation story that came about. For example, Aquinas expands onto previous church fathers how there is no explanation for the amount of time between these events that God does and as God does not create in time these adjustments can be best understood as when they developed.

The coming to of evolution made people rethink how things make sense. However, despite fixism never being doctrine in something like the Adam and Eve story it has been so ingrained in culture as such that some treat it as doctrine to see Adam and Eve that way.

>>10153210
>Pope Gregory I
Magna Moralia
>St. Ambrose
On Faith
>St. Augustine
The City of God
>St. Jerome
Nothing comes to mind
>St. Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica (Have fun)
>St. John Chrysostom
Paschal Homily
>St. Basil the Great
On the Holy Spirit
>St. Gregory of Nazianzus
Body and Soul
>St. Athanasius
Against the Heathen (has a sequel)
>St. Bonaventure
On the Reduction of Arts to Theology
>St. Anselm
Cur Deus Homo
>St. Isidore of Seville
On the Catholic Faith Against the Jews (Because I won't have you sit through the Etymologiae)
>St. Peter Chrysologus
Literally any sermon
>St. Leo the Great
The Tome
>St. Peter Damian
De Divina Omnipotentia
>St. Bernard of Clairvaux
De Diligendo Dei
>St. Hilary of Poitiers
De Trinitate (Have fun)
>St. Alphonsus Liguori
The Moral Theology
>St. Francis de Sales
Introduction to the Devout Life
>St. Cyril of Alexandria
Becoming Temples of God
>St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Catecheses
>St. John Damascene
Fountain of Wisdom
>St. Bede the Venerable
You just thank this guy for what he enabled you to read
>St. Ephrem
It's literally a bunch of hymns. Browse. Many are educational.
>St. Peter Canisius
Summa doctrinae christianae
>St. John of the Cross
Dark Night of the Soul
>St. Robert Bellarmine
De Controversiis
>St. Albertus Magnus
Opera Omnia (lol)
>St. Anthony of Lisbon and Padua
Wouldn't know. Pray that you find it.
>St. Lawrence of Brindisi
Mariale
>St. Teresa of Ávila
Interior Castle
>St. Catherine of Siena
Dialogues
>St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Story of a Soul
>St. John of Ávila
Nothing comes to mind, sorry.
>Hildegard of Bingen
Liber Divinorum Operum
>St. Gregory of Narek
Book of Prayers

>>10047668
>meme arrows