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What is some actually worthwhile Christian literature? I don't mean any kind of debates over theological minutia or proselytizing tracts, I mean stuff that actually reflects the philosophical heart of the religion.

>> No.20095269

>>20095251
Dostoevsky
Kierkegard
Chesterton
Belloc

>> No.20095272

Brideshead Revisited
The Power and the Glory
All of Flannery O'Connor's stuff
Gilead

>> No.20095276

Plato

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>>20095251
Word on Fire has actually republished a good line of books like this, so I'd recommend looking into some of these titles. Not shown in this picture, but also part of the collection, are the "St. Benedict Collection" and the "Ignatian Collection". But I'd focus for your purposes on Flannery O'Connor and Chesterton.

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>>20095272
Have you read pic?

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>>20095251
Zhuang Zhou

>> No.20096942

>>20095251
War and Peace

>> No.20096946

>>20095269
add Pascal

>> No.20096956

>>20095251
No such thing.

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>> No.20097141

>>20095251
The Girl I Left Behind - Shusaku Endo

>> No.20098241

>>20095269
>>20096942
>>20096946
All good. I would add:
>Augustine's City of God
>Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

>> No.20099023

>>20098241
This is pretty much the best list, in conjunction with the other posts. Praise God.

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>>20098241
>>Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

>> No.20099840

The Imitation of Christ
Life of Christ - Fulton Sheen

>> No.20099980

>>20095251
Check out Banner of Truth publisher

R C Sproul - Holiness of God
J I Packer - Knowing God

Anything by Spurgeon

>> No.20100139

>>20096946
add Leibniz

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>>20095251
The Journey: A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims by Peter Kreeft
https://davidsteele.blog/2010/12/24/the-journey-a-spiritual-roadmap-for-modern-pilgrims-peter-kreeft-1996

>> No.20100970

>>20100139
based

>> No.20100985

The Way of a Pilgrim

>> No.20101595

>>20095251
Jesus the Christ by James Talmage and pretty much anything CS Lewis

>> No.20101715

>>20095251
CS Lewis
Pilgrim's Progress

I hate Jesus btw
and the Old Testament

>> No.20101738

>>20095251
Blaise Pascal's Pensees (he influenced Nietzsche and basically identified the problem of existential dread before the most notable existential philosophers - he presents God as the solution to nihilism but even if you disagree with that it's a good read specifically the part about the transmutation of suffering which is what Nietzsche took from him)

>> No.20102181

Ben Hur

>> No.20102186

Book of the New Sun

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I'm reading Thomas Carlyles Work And Despair Not right now, which might not exist in english as it's a collection of his works published under that name in Germany. My version is 107 years old and was read by soldiers in the trenches. It's from a genre called perseverance literature that was popular in WW1 at the front and the homefront. Basically it's motivational/self help literature from over a century ago. I find it very edifying. It also helped me understand why they had a different caliber of men back then and what I need to do to bekome like them.

And I have a bookmark painted by my gf

>> No.20102227

>>20095251
Excuse me, I know you may say the Bible isn't Christian "literature", but if you want to seek God, that's the best place to find Him. Well, even that's not completely true. The verses that made me contemplate that are John 5:39-40. Read John, and pray that you could be made willing to come to Christ that you may have life. May God bless you anon

>> No.20102230

>>20095251
Christ Recrucified, by Nikos Kazantzakis. It is better than the Last Temptation of Christ.

>> No.20102240

Pascal