/lit/ - Literature

>>9140561
>good
>Catholic

nice meme

stop getting triggered, Catholic cucks. I dare you not to reply. Please don't, it was just a joke, calm yourselves and your righteousness

>>9140561

The Golden Legend by Jacobua de Voragine

The Chuch History by Eusebius

But you're probably better off just reading something contemporary that draws on all of these sources like A Brief History of the Catholic Church.

Here is the answer: >>9140403

>>9140564
>>>/pol/

>>9140564
Fuck you

>>9140561
https://catechesisofthepopes.wordpress.com/major-themes/the-lives-of-the-saints/audiences/

>>9140564
isn't "there's no such thing as a good Catholic" a Catholic meme?
>>9140561
Lives of Saints
Catechism of the Church

>>9140564

>>9140564
Go fuck yourself

>>9140564
infantile faggotry detected.

>not sure if it's just one autist or if /lit/ is really infested with molested idolaters

>>9142573
Catholic and Orthodox posting has always been vibrant here.

>>9142573

>Praying before a statue that represents the mother of the Son of God is idolatrous

>believing in the prosperity gospel, living for wealth and excess, and embracing materialistic consumerism isn't idolatrous

>Protestant logic

>>9142604
Not to mention interpreting Paul's arguments against works as anything but an argument against Jewish law or pagan sacrifice, and delegitimizing the letter of James.

>>9140561
Solid pop history with a great bibliogprahy

>THEOLOGY

>novice

Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
Scholastic Metaphysics by Edward Feser
The Last Superstition by Edward Feser
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Mere Christianity
CATHOLICISM by Robert Barron
The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware
Outlines of Moral Theology by Francis J. Connell

>intermediate

God: His Existence and His Nature by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Natural Theology by Bernard Boedder
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Etienne Gilson
Against Heresies
City of God
Christianity for Modern Pagans
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

>advanced

Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Summa Contra Gentiles
Summa Theologiae
On the Incarnation
The Didache
Divine Names by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

>SPIRITUAL LIFE

>novice

The Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
Story of a Soul by St. Therese
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Fr Seraphim Rose
Nihilism - Fr Seraphim Rose

>intermediate

The Interior Castle
Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius
Dialogues by St. Catherine of Sienna
True Devotion to Mary
True Devotion to the Holy Spirit

>advanced

The Cloud of Unknowing
The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
The Desert Fathers
The Philokalia
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis

I got this list on a /pol/ Catholicism thread. I'm going through Solzhenitsyn, so I haven't started on it yet, I can't say how good it is. It certainly looks impressive.

>>9142639

Why is the Didache advanced theology? It's literally like 5 pages long.

http://www.catholicplanet.com/ebooks/didache.htm

>>9142639
Missing LOTS of Hillaire Belloc unfortunately, he and Chesterton are basically peanut butter and Jelly.

>God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
anon....

>>9142654
>>9142655
Lads, as I said, I haven't gone through it, I don't know what to make of it. I was going to start working my way through it soon. If you have suggestions then please do share them.

>>9142728

The book "Not By Scripture Alone" edited by Sungenis was very influential in my conversion to Catholicism.

Also, the Catechism itself is missing from your list. It really is the best way to learn Catholic doctrine, especially if you read it with the Compendium by the USCCB.

I would recommend Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, too. It's a standard reference book for Catholic theology.

>>9142604
This is a WASP-only board, please remove yourself.

>>9142924

would anyone but a wasp post a picture of an anime girl?

>>9142982
>WASP
>Catholic
You know what the 'P' stands for, right?

>>9143194

>I am the most Protestant of all Protestants, a Protestant Protestant, protesting against Protestantism itself

>>9142604
>he thinks gospel of success is exclusive to and widespread among protestants
>he doesn't understand what 'idolatry' means
>he keeps ardently defending his cult of blessed virgin
Are you an actual 13 year old? Has the holy spirit touched your boypucci already?

>>9143252

no you're the one who doesn't understand that stuff and also who is 13.

>>9140564

>>9143256
>no u
Great argument. As expected from your average Catholic retard.

>>9143217
You're probably Irish as well.

>>9142604

>>9143265

>expects something more than shitposting on 4chan

If you want high fallutin, scholarly discourse, you should go to reddit, my friend.

>>9142604
>Acquiring and valuing something is the same as worshipping it

>>9141014
>>>/r/cuckold

No, in two thousand years of the Churches history, the single most educated, richest, and highest concentrated amount of educated people in the Western world did not write a single thing regarding the Saints and the History of the Church.

>>9142639
>Ratzinger

You should also check out Ratzinger/Benedict's "Jesus of Nazareth" books. They're great.

That is an Eastern Christian icon.

>>9144964
That's very good. *pats*

>>9140564
Here's your (You).

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