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[Anonymous No.11469288]

Is pic related worth reading?

Also, give me more Christian literature recs.

[a_poor_sinner !!eiHxl4pZe1i No.11469396]

>>11469288
Yes, Kempis is based and redpilled. Imitatio Dei is an official position of the Catholic church. As above, so below, and all that Chaldean oracle stuff.

Recommendations: The Holy Bible. Harnack's Marcion, if you're interested in one of the earliest heresies of the Church. The Apostolic Fathers, more early Church. Bonaventure's The Journey of the Mind to God and other works (get your Franciscan on). Girard's The Scapegoat for a philosophical/sociological view of Christ's sacrifice. Edinger's Archetype of the Apocalypse for a literary exegesis of Revelation. John Duns Scotus' A Treatise on God as First Principle, just what it sounds like.

Theology foundation mode: Aristotle's Organon and Metaphysics. Plotinus Enneads. Aquinas' Summa Theologica.

Apophatic mode: Meister Eckhart (contemporary of Aquinas), or Simone Weil (qt waifu).

[a_poor_sinner !!eiHxl4pZe1i No.11469412]

Tertullian's Apologeticus if you want even more early Church. This is the guy that's largely responsible for ousting Marcion btw, and shaping Christianity into what it resembles today.

[a_poor_sinner !!eiHxl4pZe1i No.11469492]

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/cultr/documents/rc_pc_cultr_doc_20060327_plenary-assembly_final-document_en.html

Also check out the Vatican's publication on the Via Pulchritudinis (the way of beauty). Compare to Plotinus' essay On Beauty.

[a_poor_sinner !!eiHxl4pZe1i No.11469584]

Still need more early Church? Augustine's City of God. 5th century, late antiquity. Christianity was ascendant, and the pagan Greek philosophers were writing their last. Augustine was a reformed Manichean, but in this work he very clearly portrays life on Earth as an eternal conflict between God's chosen people (Christians) and agents of the Devil (everyone else). This book was massively influential in setting the tone for centuries of Christian license to the persecution of heretics. When you think of pillaging crusaders or fiery inquisitions done in Jesus' name, it's mostly because of this guy.

[Anonymous No.11470858]

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[Anonymous No.11470868]

>>11469396
>>11469412
>>11469492
>>11469584
This guy has some great recs. That chart is unfortunately pretty shoddy. For Prots I would recommend Kierkegaard, Barth, and Ravenhill.

[Anonymous No.11470904]

You can never stop chart-anon.

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[Anonymous No.11470951]

>>11470910
>St. Basil and St. Maximos under Christian instead of Orthodox

>Orthodox section doesn't even have Dumitru Stăniloae

[Anonymous No.11470958]

>>11470951
>Orthodox has no Gregory Palamas or John Chrysostom

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>>11470951
>>11470958
Excuse my autism

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