/lit/ - Literature

I'm stuck at my parents' house during the quarantine, and they still have almost all of my old undergrad books from when I got my Great Texts degree.

In particular, they still have my copy of St. Catherine of Siena's Dialogue. I'm probably going to start reading it soon.

Either Catherine of Siena or Teresa of Avila. Maybe also Edith Stein.

It's definitely the most "accurate" from the Christian perspective. Starting with Paradise Lost, most depictions of Satan make him way too powerful and/or charming. Satan is meant to be just as pathetic as any other sinner. Arguably MORE pathetic, given the heights from which he fell.

>>14055876
It's important to keep in mind the context in which Catherine was writing, though. The Church was going through a pretty major crisis. The Pope was stuck in Avignon and there was rampant sexual degeneracy among the clergy. It was honestly somewhat similar to what's going on in Catholicism right now. Under such circumstances, it's the place of a saint to call out right from wrong and defend the Truth of the Gospel. This is the tradition of things in Judaism/Christianity going all the way back to the Old Testament prophets.

And she did wind up winning, in the end. All the big reformers of that period did. The clergy were reformed and the Pope went back to Rome.

>>12556827
Being an exemplary servant of God
See: Catherine of Sienna