/lit/ - Literature

>>23413756
Aryans really did start it all my nigga, to deny it to this point means you're probably black or have been blacked in the brain

>>23408563
Based God

>>23033624
Posting the full title because it explains itself: Ralph Martin - The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints

Actually growing in faith worked for me. My life gets better by the day, regardless of the ebb of circumstances, which are inevitable, but the peace rooted in love of God lasts forever.

>>10358018
Well, for starters, I’m Catholic.

>prayer as just conversation with God

To my knowledge prayer is traditionally understood as application of the heart and mind towards God. This relates to not just petition, thanksgiving, and the like but also meditation and contemplation.

>>10133108
I didn't even realize it. Something to look forward to.

>>10133271
God exists from a position of eternity, creating reality with a single act of creation. This plays out for us in time and as such the common view is that God sustains creation in every moment of time. To understand God in relation to causation, please look into Concurrentism.
In terms of God's plan, this is mainly understood as mystery with no doctrinal answer for precisely how it's understood. However the go-to answer given by theologians is understanding God's will in two respects: Ordained and permissive will. What is ordained is the innate purpose of all things and specific events for salvation and what is permissive is what provides freedom necessary to their good, despite whether they use it for their good at all. However the extent of both and how to make sense of specific events is impossible and leads to the Problem of Evil.

>>10113484
I have Zen and the Birds on my Amazon Wishlist still: In what respect did Merton become a heretic? Specific examples please, I'm out of the know. All I've heard is speculation over his dream of being a Zen monk.

>>10113487
I have always been Catholic.

>>10063488
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

Unrelated, but this is a good song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF0ACuF_Te8

>GENERAL

The Bible (Ignatius Study Bible Recommended)
The Catholic Catechism

>accepted English versions of Bible

NABRE
Douay Rheims
RSV

>THEOLOGY

>novice

Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger
The Last Superstition by Edward Feser
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Mere Christianity
CATHOLICISM by Robert Barron
Outlines of Moral Theology by Francis J. Connell

>intermediate

Scholastic Metaphysics by Edward Feser
God: His Existence and His Nature by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Natural Theology by Bernard Boedder
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Etienne Gilson
Against Heresies
City of God
Christianity for Modern Pagans
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

>advanced

Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Summa Contra Gentiles
Summa Theologiae
On the Incarnation
The Didache
Divine Names by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

>SPIRITUAL LIFE

>novice

The Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
Story of a Soul by St. Therese
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Nihilism - Fr Seraphim Rose

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>>6701898
http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201301/why-did-jesus-%E2%80%9Cdescend-hell%E2%80%9D-26836

>>6263967

>>6116439
The Catholic Church is the only True Church guided by the Holy Spirit and in Communion with God.

>>6116454
heh

>>6092956

>>5826633
>is tantamount to insulting them

How is it insulting if I'm honoring their father? Generally when you want something done, you speak to the man in charge and he delegates to his subordinates. I don't understand why the same principle doesn't apply to the gods.

>Zeus will help you, but he's not going to make his kin jump through hoops for you

So I could devote myself completely to Zeus but he would still abandon me if I don't also worship his kin? This polytheism stuff sounds like a real headache, I'll just stick with the One True God.