Christian Canon

[Anonymous No.7559400]

Lets talk about the Bible, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Crime and Punishment and any other Christian literature you can think of.

[Anonymous No.7559406]

>>7559400
20th century had a lot of great Catholic authors, Greene, Tolkien, Wolfe, O'Connor, Chesterton. Any more notable ones? Especially outside English language.

[Anonymous No.7559409]

>>7559400
>Christians in charge of literature
Books with Christian themes that aren't direct bible fan fiction are trash. Yes, even Dostoevsky.

[Anonymous No.7559410]

>>7559406
Shusaku Endo

[Anonymous No.7559414]

>>7559400
"No."

[Anonymous No.7559516]

>>7559406
waugh

[Anonymous No.7559799]

>>7559409
I wouldn't say Dostoyevsky is trash, but I do think he can be a little heavy handed with his Christian ideology sometimes to try and make a point. The ending of Crime and Punishment made me want to puke

[Anonymous No.7559817]

>>7559400
They are exemplary of Christ's teachings.

[Anonymous No.7559866]

>>7559400

Does Tolstoy count as Christian? I mean in terms of his own personal theology, which was pretty idiosyncratic.

Also that pic is deeply saddening.
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.'
--Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects

[Anonymous No.7559923]

>>7559866
No, he was excommunicated.
>>7559799
That's just being a fedorapleb.

[Anonymous No.7559934]

How would Jesus deal with the harlots in that picture?

[Anonymous No.7559940]

>>7559799

Read "The Idiot"? For a bible thumper Dosto really lays out the cynicism towards Christian ideals in a secular society. Almost as if everyone is better off without any interaction with a (debatable) Divine. Maybe it was my translation, but the cruelty, muddy prose and grueling conclusion left me depressed at the idea of Christ than hopeful.

Maybe that was his point?

[Anonymous No.7559943]

>>7559934
jesus loved whores, read your gospels son

[Anonymous No.7559944]

>>7559400
The gOD Delusion.

[Anonymous No.7559953]

>>7559940
The point was fuck women.

[Anonymous No.7559959]

>>7559923
I don't think that a church excommunicating someone makes them not a Christian (except in the eyes of that church). But ultimately there is some criterion or line, even if it's impossible to determine on a human basis. And at least some of Tolstoy's writing would be generally considered Christian, I would think, at least in terms of aspects of Christianity it espouses or reflects.

[Anonymous No.7559966]

>>7559923
Whatever, I'm a Christian so I get what he's trying to say I just hate those and he was saved and everything was okay forever types of endings. Seemed a little too neat and tidy for the story I had just read.
>>7559940
Yeah it's my favorite book of his. I kind of see it as the reversed inside out version of crime and punishment. I loved the ending of that one

[Anonymous No.7559981]

[Anonymous No.7559989]

>>7559959
He denied the divinity of Christ.
That's what automatically makes you a non Christian.
It's moralistic, with Christian morality of the time as a basis. It's not very, at least from what I've read, spiritual as in having faith, mysticism, spirituality and all that.
>>7559966
I liked the ending since Raskoljnikov had just about everything he needed and wanted for a decent life at that point.

[Anonymous No.7559999]

[Anonymous No.7560004]

>>7559981

[Anonymous No.7560035]

>>7559989
Yeah I guess maybe I was a little hard on it. It honestly wasn't even that uplifting, just in contrast to the rest of the book it was. It was a little predictable though, but hey so is life

[Anonymous No.7560041]

>>7560035
His novels much more often than not have a sad or bittersweet ending.

[Anonymous No.7560048]

Goddamn, I wanna die suffocated by the thighs of the hoe on the right.

[Anonymous No.7560083]

>>7560004

[Anonymous No.7560110]

>>7560048
one on the left is built like bas rutten though, that midriff

[Constantine !!m+/90K/qoQS No.7560159]

Just about anything Dostoevsky wrote after he got out of prison, really.

The Way of the Pilgrim

Herman Melville was more of agnostic, but he as very drawn to, and influence by, Christianity. Moby Dick and Clarel (an epic poem about a Christian who goes through a crisis of faith) are both very good Christian literature

Beowulf was written by a Christian and some aspects of it have been see as Christian allegory.
>>7559943
Jesus was pretty polite to sluts

[Anonymous No.7560927]

>>7559999
The fuck does A Wrinkle In Time have to say about Christianity?

I feel like people are too quick with the trigger on whether something is Christian lit, at times.

[Anonymous No.7561830]

>>7559406
Miguel de Unamuno

[Anonymous No.7561833]

City of God desu

[Anonymous No.7561844]

>>7559934
He would try to mend their ways. Also, anyone read the Pilgrim's Progress. Bunyan is underrated on here.

[Anonymous No.7561865]

>>7561844
Most is English or Russian or Latin in original here so everything else gets overshadowed.

[Anonymous No.7561899]

>>7560159
Bonjour Reddit

[Anonymous No.7562200]

>>7561899
Wow how that meme has metastasized

[Anonymous No.7562263]

>>7562200
It doesn't even make sense anymore

[Anonymous No.7562364]

>>7560048
Abby Lee Brazil my friend

[Anonymous No.7562425]

East of Eden
Ben Hur
A Tale of Two Cities
Pilgrim's Progress
I really like works that try to focus on the Old Testament, since it reads more like an epic that sweeps through the history of the Israelites and then those amazing poetic, wisdom, and prophet books that give it such a grand resonance. Paradise Lost is my favorite.

[Anonymous No.7562467]

>>7562425
>>7562364

This thread is such a bizarre mixture of the sacred and the profane

[Anonymous No.7562507]

>>7562467
just like the bible itself

remember when Lot's daughters got him drunk so they could seduce him in order to let him inseminate them?

[Anonymous No.7562518]

>>7562467
The sacred and the propane

[Anonymous No.7562535]

Bliss

"OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos: or if Sion Hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd
Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime."

[Anonymous No.7562621]

>>7562535
Mashallah!

[Anonymous No.7562623]

>>7562467
wouldn't have it any other way

[no caps guy !!kF3OQwkGm+M No.7562723]

i had always heard reference to how christianity was basically neoplatonism, and always wondered how much truth there was too it

then i read augustine's confessions, and funnily enough, his moment of complete spiritual conversion to christianity is immediately preceded by him reading neoplatonist literature and getting into some kind of heavy trance and "everything finally making sense to him"

just a cool detail i guess

[no caps guy !!kF3OQwkGm+M No.7562729]

>>7562364
she has a very characteristically brazillian beauty that's really kind of endearing despite there being something "masculine" to it

[Anonymous No.7562736]

Does LOTR count as Christian lit?

[Anonymous No.7562764]

>>7559409
omg

[Anonymous No.7562770]

>>7562736
its not literature its fantasy

[no caps guy !!kF3OQwkGm+M No.7562773]

>>7562764
brothers karamazov is superior to the bible to be fair

[Anonymous No.7562796]

>>7562467
They only exist through the other.

[Anonymous No.7564150]

Is John Green christian?

[Anonymous No.7564338]

>>7559400

C.S. Lewis:
* Narnia
* Space Trilogy
* Screwtape Letters

[Anonymous No.7564353]

I say a novena everyday for the sins /lit/ commited one year ago today

[Anonymous No.7566141]

>>7559999
>dubs quads on an image that gets trips
nice

[Anonymous No.7566148]

Oh boy time to post my fav Christian troll image

[Anonymous No.7566166]

>>7559400
>tfw I remembered the names and the best scenes of the two chicks the second I clicked on that pic
>tfw American christians would prolly want to crucify me

[Anonymous No.7566565]

>>7566166
saucity sauce it baby

[Anonymous No.7566833]

>>7564150
No.

[Anonymous No.7567020]

>>7566148
kek
Here of course is the representative for Protestantism.
O$teen is an utter charlatan