Christian /lit/erature (not the Bible)

[Anonymous No.20723221]

What is the best Christian literature, other than the Bible? Whether it be theology, poetry, fiction, or what have you. I have been reading the poetry of George Herbert, a 17th century Anglican priest. He's quite clever. Here is one poem by him:

'Sepulchre'

O blessed bodie! Whither art thou thrown?
No lodging for thee, but a cold, hard stone?
So many hearts on earth, and yet not one
Receive thee?
Sure there is room within our hearts good store;
For they can lodge transgressions by the score:
Thousands of toyes dwell there, yet out of doore
They leave thee.

But that which shows them large, shows them unfit.
What ever sinne did this pure rock commit,
Which holds thee now? Who hath indited it
Of murder?
Where our hard hearts have took up stones to brain thee,
And missing this, most falsly did arraigne thee;
Onely these stones in quiet entertain thee,
And order.

And as of old, the Law by heav’nly art
Was writ in stone; so thou, which also art
The letter of the word, find’st no fit heart
To hold thee.
Yet do we still persist as we began,
And so should perish, but that nothing can,
Though it be cold, hard, foul, from loving man
Withhold thee.

[Anonymous No.20723953]

>>20723221
here's a nice chart of good ones.
Lewis' stuff is great, for one.

[Anonymous No.20725212]

Bump

[Anonymous No.20725261]

>>20723221
Paradise Lost. Christianity is tor niggers.

[Anonymous No.20725268]

>>20725261
for*

[Anonymous No.20725277]

>>20723221
Parsifal.

>There is no work of Christian theology that matches Wagner's exploration of the Eucharist in Parsifal
- Scruton

>I am inspired to write this work in order to preserve the world’s profoundest secret, the truest Christian faith, nay, to awaken that faith anew. And for the sake of this immense task that it is reserved for me to accomplish, I have felt obliged to use my Nibelung drama to build a Castle of the Grail devoted to art, far removed from the common byways of human activity: for only there, in Monsalvat, can the longed-for deed be revealed to the people, to those who are initiated into its rites, not in those places where God may not show Himself beside the idols of day without His being blasphemed.
- Wagner

youtube.com/watch?v=Rd4chRf7RFQ

[Anonymous No.20726368]

Anything by Douglas Wilson. He doesn't get mentioned enough on here.