/lit/ - Literature

>>19053516

I only know about this guy, Milton, Erasmus and Blake. What are some other Christian authors that reject both Catholic and Protestant dogma?

Why is taking the leap of faith so hard bros? I'm incapable of long term commitment for either good or bad

Some of Soren Kierkegaard's works, it started my interest in existentialism, and for me a profound change in my world view

>>17939156
>fideist
Fideists are based bro

Make an intelligible refutation of Hegel
>no

Autistic screeching
>yes

>>16947755
>none of his critiques of Christianity apply to Pietism
Kierkegaard remains unassailed by Nietzsche

It's being hard for me to identify the prosaic characteristics that make his aesthetic works so inimitably palletable and light. There's a vague sense of wit to the sentences he composes without ever evoking humor.
How do I communicate like this?

>Start reading him expecting his books to just harp on about God
>Wtf this really enlightening

Any others like him?

Why did he look so jewish?

>>15130540

>>15093359
Based

>>15018752
take the faithpill

>>14970463

<95 = aesthetics
110 and 120 = logic
145+ = faith

>In the 19th century, Søren Kierkegaard would also get into a coffee ritual. He "had his own quite peculiar way of having coffee," writes biographer Joakim Garff. "Delightedly he seized hold of the bag containing the sugar and poured sugar into the coffee cup until it was piled up above the rim. Next came the incredibly strong, black coffee, which slowly dissolved the white pyramid."
Absolutely disgusting.

>God, I wish that was me

Why would anyone follow his path?

He died miserable and alone having made all the wrong choices in life

*solves anxiety*

>>14062668
OP I'm only suggesting stuff I've actually read.

I find Kierkegaard and Pascal are especially convincing to people who are coming into Christianity. In Pensées, Pascal was writing in large part in response to Descartes' skepticism and atheists but also in some parts to pagans, jews and muslims. Kierkegaard is pretty much a meme on this board now but he is really based. He was attacking Hegelians and the Danish Christian Church of the time which makes him great for people who are skeptical of the Church but still want to learn more about Christian philosophy. His personal journals are pretty relatable.

In terms of philosophy, there's also Augustine and Aquinas you might want to read. The Confessions are pretty based.

If you're interested in early Christian history, you might be interested in Elaine Pagels. You might also be interested in the Nag Hammadi Library, though keep in mind the Bible obviously takes precedent over it.
For fiction, Christianity is a central theme in most of Dostoevsky's work. I'd suggest The Karamazov Brothers.

The Cloud of Unknowing is on my reading list.

>>13953203

>>13889073
Christians stuck in the aesthetic mode of existence do, also known as "zealots".

>>13846695
Alain de Botton has contributed nothing to philosophy and has arguably made general knowledge of philosophy worse for his "fans".

*ahem*

"The Cartesian cogito ergo sum16 has been repeated often enough. If this I in cogito is to be understood as an individual human being, then the proposition proves nothing: I am thinking, ergo I am; but if I am thinking, then little wonder that I am; that has already been asserted, and the first proposition accordingly says even more than the second. But then if one understands the I in cogito as meaning a particular existing human being, philosophy shouts: ‘Foolishness, foolishness, it is not a question here of your self ormy self but of the pure I.’ But this pure I can hardly have any other than a purely thought – yes, existence. So what is the sense of the inferential form? There is no conclusion, for the proposition is a tautology."