/lit/ - Literature

Start with the Gospels.

>>18351920
What's in the box there friend?

>>18298662
Correct.
Also very important to note is that in the Gay Science, it is the madman that announces the Death of God.
>>18298530
Moveover, its interesting to note that what he wrote there in the Gay Science on the death of God is oddly very Christian.
God incarnate really did suffer and die. In a real sense, we killed him through our sin that he beared the burden of. But the fact that Christ rose from the dead after the harrowing of hell solves the problem for Nietzsche.
This act of forgiveness "wipes the blood" off us in so far as we are born again of the spirit and water [John 3:5].
We might say that the "festivals of atonement" that we were given to perform are the sacraments, specifically the Eucharist which is to be done "in memory" of Christ, of which he is really present in [Luke 22:19].
And that last question:
>must we not become gods to appear worthy of this
Is answered by the Patristic explanation of redemption. Christian redemption is deification/beatitude which are two sides of the same coin. God became man so that we too might become gods as St. Athanasius tells us. It's somewhat the reverse of Nietzsche's question: when we become worthy by grace, we can become gods.

>>18260186
this
absolutely fantastic book
a more introductory book might be Brant Pitre's Case for Jesus
>>18261694
St. Athanasius is great too
would also recommend the collection of St. Maximus' writings in The Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ

I'd also highly recommend St. Bonaventure's works The Soul's Journey to God and The Tree of Life

>>17457140
disassociate christ from christianity. i spit on the vatican. but christ makes me weep.

>>17360113
Everyone else

>>16727363
No worries anon
Once youre done with Proclus and Aquinas I highly suggest going to academia(dot)edu and looking through all of Hankey's published writing and looking into Radical Orthodoxy (Milbank has a fantastic "Reader" published by Routledge on this)

I shall be praying for you God bless ~

>>16639229
based

>>16482463
me neither.

>>15899982
>>15899982
People like you usually just jerk off to certain types of pictures instead of looking for a sequel.

>>15777786
Amen.

Is it the truth? Why?

What church is most faithful to Yeshua and his message?

This thread has been visited by the Holy Spirit. May strength be given to all who read these words.

So recently I've accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. It's been an enormous gift to me. I was an atheist as when I was younger and wasn't degenerate but very depressed with life. Jesus Christ helped me out of my hole in life and saved me.

My problem is so I've decided to be abstinent until marriage, but when I do get married what community will I raise my children around? I was raised Catholic, but never confirmed, I know next to nothing about Orthodoxy other than it has less central authority. I grew up around Protestants and they seem weak and compromised by their acceptance of evils like homosexuality.

What church still promotes the divine essence of Jesus Christ without being caught up in doctrine? Going to a Vatican ll mass as a child was incredibly uninspiring spiritually. No one read me the Bible. No one demonstrated to me the power divine love. It felt like an institution more than a place of spiritual peace and salvation. Obviously i will try to do this as a parent, but what community can my family be a part of that will help in that goal? I don't want my children to grow up not feeling the presence of God in their lives.