/lit/ - Literature

Dante's Divine Comedy is an authentic initiatic text to be used by any God fearing Christian on his spiritual path, whatever church or denomination he may be.

>>17760866
>How to into Kierkegaard and others Christian philosophers like him?
Read Kierkegaard. Then read The Institutes of the Christian Religion. Read the early Church fathers. pray and repent. get baptized and so forth. do good works and purify yourself.
Read "The Imitation of Christ" and do your best and ofc read the Bible OT & NT as you do this.

>>17040040
>What sort of perfect transcendent being has a *desire* to create anything? Isn’t he perfect in himself?
God's desires are perfectly pure - they come from a place of overabundant goodness. You're projecting your fallen human *desire* onto Him, which comes from a place of inadequacy. Totally different.

God is infinitely good and generous, a hidden treasure who wished to be known and to share himself. There's no pettiness in any of his desires.

>Jains, buddhists
>all desire is bad and negative - perfect beings have no desires
Their worldview can't account for the creation of the world either and they misunderstand the nature of desire itself, something they obsess over...ironic.

>>16607557
>Protestantism have never produced a single theological giant.

Jonathan Edwards is the protestant giant.
John Calvin is also a giant.
John Owen is also exceptional.

Just heard "The Old Man and the Sea," very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB2l3DENCMQ

I like listening to these while practicing my video games.

>>15089587
Also, the gothic, horror, and detective stories are all Saxon types of literature.
Gloom, rain, fog, the overcoat, tobacco smoke, dark coffee and tea, thick beer, smoky London and salty Boston, remnants of paganism- searching for the lost sublime in severe and grim austerity.