/lit/ - Literature

>>19448106
forgot to add pic, maybe someone enjoys it

What are some of the best books for learning about Orthodox Christianity?

>>19162595
I really enjoy late 19th Century, early 20th Century Russian theology.

I can highly recommend anything by Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Solvyov, Pavel Florensky or Sergius Bulgakov. Read stuff by people who have a strong spiritual life.

>>18935895
It actually is because the perversion comes from the same impulse to subvert and disobey the natural order of creation. A well ordered society mirrors a well ordered soul and you can't have a well ordered soul if your rational soul is held in submission to your primal urges to stick your dick in another mans ass to achieve sexual release. The intellective soul knows the purpose of procreation and you shouldn't act in a way you know goes against your overall wellbeing, just as you eat your vegetables even if they're not as delicious as chocolate because you know a well balanced diet is more conducive to your long term well being than just stuffing your face with whatever you appetite demands of you.

Either you get it or you don't get it. It's the difference between a mature Platonic worldview and an immature materialist "we're all just animals bro" worldview.

>>18577266
Read Bulgakov and Florensky.

>>18469923
Someone hasn't read Bulgakov

What made the Russians such deep and spiritual writers and theologians?

I was in such despair yesterday that I couldn't even put a name to it. I imagined how good it would be if my mind were to slip off the edge over an endless abyss, and how our drive to annihilation is just as valid as a reason for our existence as any other proposed in all of our precipitous rise and likely as-precipitous fall of mankind. And yet that's all inexorably past, passed into that eternal yesterday indistinguishable from all others that make up that word. For now I just feel at peace and within myself.

>>14052284
You ever read Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet? He treats the topic of loneliness in a very unique way, though his message may not necessarily be: that to be alone is potentially the most positive experience you can ever have as a person