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Life-affirming Christian lit?
inb4 (re)read the Gospels

>> No.18416812

>>18416791
Pensees - Pascal
The Brothers Karamazov - Dosto

>> No.18416822

Les Miserables
Not strictly orthodox, but has profound takes on mercy and redemption

>> No.18417587

I do not know if there is a good English translation but Le porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu by Péguy is very seminal.

>> No.18417732

>>18417587
what makes it seminal?

>> No.18417736
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>Life-affirming

>> No.18417740

Is it not a little contradictory to look for life-affirming sentiments in anything truly Christian, since a major point of the faith is the fallen and decaying nature of us as we await the good that follows death? This was Nietzsche's autistic fixation/objection to it anyway. If any christfriends could explain why this is not the case, id be grateful.

>> No.18417756

>>18417740
Im guessing OP means life-affirming in the "help me to stand up and fight" sense and not the hedonic "hold onto this life its all we have sense"

It is a beautiful paradox at the heart of the Gospel that in order to save your life you must lay it down.

>> No.18417757

>>18416791
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV-cjP96Se8

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>beautiful paradox at the heart of the Gospel

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>>18417756
Do you long for martyrdom?

>> No.18417781

>>18417765
Why are you unable to engage with other people on even an anonymous website, let alone real life. Why can you only use a meme template to convey your thoughts, there is no anxiety here anon, we don't know you, you can tell us your opinion without hiding behind a trite joke.

>> No.18417789

>>18416791
Nietzsche defined life-affirming directly in contradiction to Christianity, you need to find some really whacky sect if you want a life-affirming Christianity.

>> No.18417795

>>18417765
In light of Christ we are all Basedjaks
>>18417771
Martyrdom is a grace, it should be desired but not demanded

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>In light of Christ we are all Basedjaks

>> No.18417804

What do you mean by life-affirming? Spiritually uplifting or life-affirming in the Nietzschean type of way?

>> No.18417808

>>18417789
Guarantee OP is an americuck, in shitmerica religion is about as meaningful as which football team you support

>> No.18417812

>>18417795
>Martyrdom is a grace, it should be desired but not demanded
Anon, and I ask genuinely, what has convinced you of the rightness of your God? I want to believe but I can't, when I think to myself of whether God exists, the contrary is what strikes me as more true. This may simple be my age and inexperience, and so I always want to hear what convinces others

>> No.18417857

>>18417732
There is an organic and human conception of spirituality, without using too much theological concept the author makes us understand the beauty and the cleanliness of the Christian life founded in the hope. He shows what life is worth and what it gains by being founded in God and in civil, religious and family societies, and how this life, founded in hope, which is not of exuberance and pleasure, is of a deeper beauty and more beautiful than those without God and without hope.

>> No.18417864

>>18417800
Not sure why it changed to Based, I posted it as basedjak
>>18417812
"Credo ut intelligam" - I believe that I may understand. There are the "preambles to the faith" like the existence of the One God, the reliability of Scripture, the truth about human nature, etc. But faith is ultimately a matter of the heart. Which isn't to say it isn't reasonable, it is the reasons of the heart which ground reason itself (drawing from Pascal)

Do not be discouraged. Keep seeking the truth.

>> No.18418853

>>18416791
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>> No.18418868

>>18417864
>Not sure why it changed to Based, I posted it as basedjak
anon...

>> No.18419192

"life-affirming" sounds like twitter trannyspeak

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18419278

I think that my parents are lukewarm in their beliefs. They say that they are conservative Christians but they got the vaccine like good global citizens. How can everyone not see that this is obviously part of the Satanic agenda preparing people to accept the mark of the beast?
This is what I see from the boomer generation as a whole. They preach Christianity and conservative values and they whine and moan about society's degenerating moral values, but when the time comes for them to actually take a stand for their beliefs, they cuck out and fall in line with the globalist agenda and make excuses that it's "just a vaccine, stop being paranoid".

>> No.18419330

find a different religion, christianity was regarded as a death cult and feminine

>> No.18419338

>>18416791
Christian Bobin

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>> No.18419350

>>18419278
such a cute cat for such a bad post

>> No.18419351

>>18419350
He was right. >>18419343

>> No.18419377

>>18419351
he doesn't talk about cats though so not so much, also this is merely a non-historical intuition that was explained by FoucAIDS

>> No.18419418

>>18419350
>>18419377
You are the mad one, but you don't think so because you get your worldview from the media.

>> No.18419495

https://youtu.be/ul1OmFub9jY

>> No.18419549

>>18416812
>The Brothers Karamazov - Dosto
very much this