/lit/ - Literature

>>10181703

Explaining the whole system of thought is a mighty task for even a whole thread. Justifying the religion as a whole usually works as this:

>justify and defend the cosmology and, from it, the basis for its ethics (this will also give the basis for the possibility of the miraculous)
>justify and defend the accuracy of its historical events in at least a naturalistic sense
>provide arguments for how supernatural claims are true revelations of nature rather than just coincidence that they coincide with reality (for example, Aquinas taught that God at the burning bush said more about His nature than could ever be grasped at the time) so to justify calling these claims of the miraculous as accurate
>As justifying the the historic claims and worldview would then justify church authority, you now have the whole religion justified

I can give books that assist with all of this if you tell me where, precisely, you are.

>>10152905
>How do you go from philosophical theism to Christianity?

Philosophical theism can get you far. That can get you the majority of the worldview and major aspects of the lifestyle, which is a monumental task as-is. From there you are to connect the worldview you know as reality to a tradition that seems to reveal it and give argumentation that it is truly is revealed rather than just coincidence that there is similarity. From there it depends on the religion. For Christianity, it means discovering the legitimacy of the church's authority and you're set from there, barring some discourse over claims to church authority.

>>10152915
I have a hard time viewing this as an epic in a genre sense but I see what you're talking about and I have a hard time rejecting it.

Well said and well played, Donne.

>>10152991
Seconding St. Francis de Sales.
Also St. Eugene de Mazenod because of my own personal struggles.