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Dionysius the Areopagite - The Celestial Hierarchy
https://ccel.org/ccel/d/dionysius/celestial/cache/celestial.pdf

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, QQ. 50-64
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1.htm
(eg. https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1050.htm to https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1064.htm))

These are the Catholic essentials on angels. Be sure to share any insights or favourite passages if you read them!

>>19940035
I mean, like it or not, the world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around Jesus Christ and His Church. That's why we're living in the year 2022 of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The history of philosophy is the history of Christianity because what is in actuality good, true, and beautiful, belongs to the Logos (by definition). As Jesus is the Logos, that means it belongs to Him. And because We are His mystical body, that means it belongs to Us.

>>19940073
>the pre-christer Abrahamics refused to allow Yahweh to be identified with Zeus or Jupiter
Obviously, because Zeus and Jupiter are not the most high God, they were begotten of "Titans" who themselves were begotten. To try to identify He Who Is with those minor spirits would be a complete logical contradiction, so good on those who did not do so.
>whom one god could rule over many
If the One of Plato and Aristotle exists (which one can prove logically), there can be no other "gods", because that would be a logical contradiction in what it means to have an essence of pure act. They would, at best, be called "sons of God" or little-g "gods", as they are in scripture - of the same status as humans, infinitely lower than the One True God, the One who is deserving of worship for creating All.
>Christians merely deleted the points they didn't like and kept the "one god,"
Because it is the only logical choice. Why would anybody worship a lesser divinity who is not the One God who created All?
>>19940176
Obviously, the modern SJW movement is a result of Marxist postmodernism, which was by and large a Jewish (read: anti-Christ) philosophical movement. Your whole view of history seems to be distorted by an incredible amount of hatred for Jesus Christ and His Church.
>>19940208
Are you seriously implying that Christianity is pro-jewish?
>"[...] the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and the enemies of all mankind" (1 Thes 2:15)
Try preaching that in a Synagogue.
"And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan" (Revelation 2:9)

>>19460823
Nice gish gallop.
>With the centuries of doctrinal innovation and flaunting of tradition
As you are a member of a church whose whole doctrine is a man-made innovation completely divorced from the ancient tradition of the church, I don't think you have a leg to stand on.
>filioque
Both Eastern and Western fathers, like Maximus the Confessor, agreed that there is an orthodox way to profess the filioque.
>hoaxes like the donation of Constantine
Which are not the basis of the papal doctrines, and whose fact of forgery was revealed BY Catholics.
>literal idol worship by people like Pope Francis and the Pachamama idols
Your opinion on the personality or morals of the bishop of Rome does not change whether or not the church was created by Jesus Christ.
>the homosexual infestation of the priesthood,
There is an equal, if not higher, rate of abuse of minors by the clergy in Protestant churches, and public schools. The "crisis" is overblown by the media.
>frequent innovation in liturgy
Why should this matter to you when your entire liturgy is a man-made innovation not based on ANY ancient tradition, whereas the New Order of the mass is?
>no one can become a Catholic and feel secure in their salvation.
You have it quite opposite, actually. The real danger is that the heretical false churches, like the one you are a part of, fool people like you into thinking your salvation is secure, when Paul tells us to work out our salvation with "fear and trembling". Satan is the author of division and rivalries, and so he is the creator of the Protestant churches.
>You have no history, only propaganda which makes that assertion but that everyone outside of your cult disagrees with.
Unlike you, I can read the early church Fathers and church histories and see that they agreed with the same things I believe. You don't have the same luxury, so you have to cope and seethe when you find all of the fathers talking about baptismal regeneration, real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the unity of the church being built upon the chair of St. Peter, etc.

"Confessions", by St. Augustine: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm
"14 Rules of Discernment", by St. Ignatius of Loyola - https://prepase.weebly.com/uploads/8/6/4/5/8645625/0-st._ignatius_14_rules_of_discernment.pdf
"The Didache" - https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm
"St. Justin Martyr: The Spermatikos Logos and the Natural Law" - https://lexchristianorum.blogspot.com/2010/03/st-justin-martyr-spermatikos-logos-and.html
"Homilies on the Gospels" by St. Gregory the Great - https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/gregory-the-great-homiles-on-the-gospels
"On the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statutes" by St. John Chrysostom - https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=7BD8240226E232F4FC03F7E63C1D9712
"Homilies on Genesis 1-17" by St. John Chysostom - https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C71D586CC1C2DBBFA32E5A95A03F9AF5

"Confessions", by St. Augustine: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm
"14 Rules of Discernment", by St. Ignatius of Loyola - https://prepase.weebly.com/uploads/8/6/4/5/8645625/0-st._ignatius_14_rules_of_discernment.pdf
"The Didache" - https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm
"St. Justin Martyr: The Spermatikos Logos and the Natural Law" - https://lexchristianorum.blogspot.com/2010/03/st-justin-martyr-spermatikos-logos-and.html
"Homilies on the Gospels" by St. Gregory the Great - https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/gregory-the-great-homiles-on-the-gospels
"On the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statutes" by St. John Chrysostom - https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=7BD8240226E232F4FC03F7E63C1D9712
"Homilies on Genesis 1-17" by St. John Chysostom - https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C71D586CC1C2DBBFA32E5A95A03F9AF5