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What are some good Christian novels?

>> No.9357321

>>9357277
Letter To A Christian Nation by Sam Harris

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>> No.9357380

>>9357277

Silence
Les Miserables (if you count a deist as Christian)
East of Eden

>> No.9357383

>>9357350

>le Tolkien was a Catholic Author meme

I forgot about that part where the hobbits roasted Hugenots

>> No.9357494

Anything by Dostoyevsky
Tolstoy's later stuff (although it's pretty heretical)
Gulag Archipelago

Weird I can only think of Russian orthodox authors off the top of my head at the moment

>>9357350
These are good
>>9357380
Of these, only Silence is written by a Christian

>> No.9357512

>>9357277
Most of Bernanos.

>> No.9357673

>>9357512
whats his best

>> No.9357680

i was going to suggest A Case of Conscience by James Blish, but i could never decide whether Evertchi was actually an agent of Satan or if he was just an asshole Lithian, and if the planet blew up because those idiots couldn't build a working fusion reactor with any safeties, or if it was the priest's exorcism.

>> No.9357690

J.F. Powers' Morte D'Urban

>> No.9357706

>>9357673
you can't fuck up with sous le soleil de satan, at least
also léon bloy

>> No.9357711

>>9357706
le desespere is bloys best?

>> No.9357716

>>9357711
I don't know, I don't read

>> No.9357747

>>9357277
The Divine Comedy is good, not really great and amazing, but its good.

>> No.9357884

>>9357383
This. He's more a mad old pagan than anything (and the better for it).

>> No.9357895

Anything by Taylor Caldwell

>> No.9357897

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene.

>> No.9357914

The Bible

>> No.9357920

>>9357277
120 of sodom
beyond good and evil
story of the eye

>> No.9357928

>>9357277
Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly

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>> No.9358140

>>9357673
Also Diary Of A Country Priest -- at least I've found it's his most widely read book. All the others are pretty hard to track down desu.

>>9357928
Mr. Blue is a shit book, do not read.

>>9357277
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Desert Of Love by Francois Mauriac
All of Graham Greene's Catholic novels are pretty good also, the best being Brighton Rock and The Power And The Glory.

>> No.9358210

>>9357383
>>9357884
Are you stupid or American?

>> No.9358218

>>9357383
>>9357884
This is the current state of /lit/.

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Laurus
The Way of a Pilgrim

>> No.9358248

>>9358140
>Mr. Blue is a shit book

How would you know? You haven't read it.

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The Solar Cycle by Gene Wolfe.

>> No.9358512

>>9358210
>>9358218
Why did you post twice? Are you trying to make it look like more people are agreeing with you?

>> No.9359132

>>9358512
Or maybe people agree with Tolkien more.
Take a look at the afterlife in LotR.

>> No.9359204

>>9359132
What? That person replied to the same two people, with the same response, twice, within two minutes.

>> No.9359461

>>9357914
> novels

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>> No.9360240

>>9357920
this

>> No.9360247

my diary, desu

>> No.9360311

>>9357383
>>9357884
Newfags detected. Do yourself a service and at least pick a biography of his or two. He, and his work is thoroughly Catholic. Now, you many have caught a wild theory or two from the nethers of this forum, but no serious scholar ever even looked at it. In fact they're all universal in proclaiming him Catholic author.

>> No.9360318

>>9360311
lol are you actually mad about people shitposting about tolkien

>> No.9360392

>>9360318
Mad over a person exhibiting imbecilic behaviour? If you two examples that never lurked before took a hint from mockery directed at you, you'd see that attempt at 'shitposting' failed on every level. Now take a hint and do read a book or two, so you'll do better next time you try it.

>> No.9360479

>>9358248
lol, yes, I'm the only person outside of elderly syndicated Catholic columnists who has ... it's a cloying moralistic tract, not a novel with any of its own artistic merits. And its overt religiosity isn't even deployed in an engaging way: it could've been written by or about a Buddhist and it wouldn't have changed anything. Fuck this book.

>>9357277
Oh and also, to OP, don't forget your poetry.
Canterbury Tales
Gerusalemme Liberata
Orlando Furiosio
Le Chanson de Roland

Look especially to the last few for lots of good bits about slaughtering "paynims" (pagans) (Muslims) (Mohammedans) (Arabs).

>> No.9360522

>>9360479
No idea about the other two, but Chanson and Canterbury aren't Christian poetry. They are written by Christians, but that's it. Other themes prevail.

I can recommend Huysmans. En Route is brilliant. Not preachy and grounded.

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>>9357277

At least half the books on this list portray Christianity in a positive light.

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is there any Christian-kino? something that makes me believe in God, i'm an atheist but not a fedora edgylord, i just want a good reason to believe

>> No.9361221

Tristram Shandy is the most genuinely anti-modern, Christian novel there is. The sermon in book II is the heart of the whole thing.

"We trust we have good conscience..."

It's also extremely funny and sad at once. Check it out.

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>>9360686
The Young Pope. Beautiful show that made me start going to church again.

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>>9360686

>> No.9361769

>>9360686
>In 1995, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of cinema, the Vatican compiled a list of 45 "great films". The 45 movies are divided into three categories: religion, values, and art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican%27s_list_of_films

>> No.9361821

The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.9361842

>>9361769
Damn the Vatican is Patrician as fuck

>> No.9363236

>>9361221
is it i have heard it is very modern. i would like it if it weren't

>> No.9363509

>>9361696
Jesus Christ Superstar is a fantastic film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-voeq7Cebo

>> No.9363933

>>9363236

Nah it's counter-enlightenment. The book is basically an attack on the notion that we can "reason our way" through life, and on Locke in particular. It's definitely avant garde but not at all inaccessible. The "philosophy" of the work, "Shandyism", is basically one of Christian tolerance and charity towards others.

>my uncle Toby had scarce a heart to retaliate upon a fly.

>—Go—says he, one day at dinner, to an over-grown one which had buzzed about his nose, and tormented him cruelly all dinner-time,—and which after infinite attempts, he had caught at last, as it flew by him;—I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand,—I'll not hurt a hair of thy head:—Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape;—go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?—This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

But more important than all its philosophizing it is laugh-out-loud funny. It's not an easy book to describe because it is truly sui generis.

>> No.9364125

>>9361696
Kinolicious list

>> No.9364212

>>9361842
>Vatican
>Patrician as fuck

Well no shit...

>> No.9364214

>>9358140
>Brideshead Revisited

Worst ending ever. It's like he suddently remembered his faith, and had to write every character into it not to dissapoint the pope...

>> No.9364528

>>9363933
Not that guy, but I'll check it out
I'm intimidated by the size of the book, though

>> No.9364538

sigrid undset's writing

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>>9361696

>> No.9365265

>>9357380
Hugo was actually Cathlic until his death bed I thought, in which he renounced his faith and saw to it his children would not be buried in a Catholic cemetery or something

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>>9357321
This.

Christcucks btfo

>> No.9365269

>>9357494
How was Tolstoy heretical?

>> No.9365281

>>9357747
>not really great and amazing
>one of the most important works in the western canon by one of the top 4 most important authors of the western canon is "good, not really great or amazing"

>> No.9365511

>>9365269
Didn't believe in the Resurrection desu

>> No.9365536

>>9365267
Harris can't even BTFO David Hume, he doesn't touch the Gospels.

>> No.9366868

>>9361821
Really? I have to read that

>> No.9366909

>>9365511
wow really? thats pretty bad how in the world did he justify that? thats basically not believing in Christianity