What are the best books that argue in support of Christianity and the concept of god? I'm looking for non-fiction preferably, but will take fiction reccomendations as well
Read the Tao de Ching and find god instead.
>>7712080
Start with Plato and Aristotle. Once you've read Republic, Laws, Symposium, Menon, Phaedo, Categories, Ethics, Metaphysics move onto City of God by Augustine and selected writings of Aquinas (500 or so pages on metaphysics). With that you may want to consider Descartes Meditations and Leibniz and after that move to Kierkegaard. With him finished try Joseph Ratzinger and Edward Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics, Scholastic Essays and maybe some Alvin Platinga.
If you want to go the easy pleb route read Peter Kreeft, his Faith and Reason, Ethics, Platonic Tradition and Aquinas.
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>>7712086
Kierk'd.
>>7712137
Lewis is mediocre.
I don't know where to find Belloc here and no Kindl or money for real copies. Pdf is out of the question.
>>7712148
>give me book recommendations
>i cannot read them on digital or physical
>>7712080
Summa Theologica
Have fun m80 ;)
>>7712148
Oh well if you're poor you should just read Crime and Punishment, it will probably make you feel better.
And there is some top Jebsus.
>>7712163
I'm not op and I've read most of recommend Christian lit desu
>>7712134
underrated
Orthodoxy
G K Chesterton
>>7712080
Hey, I ust bought a bible, but essential things are left: Matthew 6, 13 And thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Can I get a refund or do they say: it was written on it, that i was a unity-translation(economically translation?
I really appreciate your time.
The best non-fiction book on the subject is the Holy Bible.
why did C.S. Lewis have such a hard on for god
>>7712809
I have the "New International Version" its not on there though.
Does anyone know if its a worthy translation?
are there any fellow christians here?why and what denomination?
>>7712861
Baptist here
>>7712861
>designed place
>justice
>hope
>>7712126
Good to see somebody mentioning ratzinger.
Is /lit/ ignorant of A.W. Tozer, or what? I hardly (never) see him mentioned and he merits the serious Christian's attenton.
>pic related
>>7712853
it's jestingly called the nearly inspired version.
I'd lean towards NASB ESV or KJV
>>7712080
All great books, in their greatness, argue for God.
>>7712861
The existence of denominations n > 1 just proves that Christianity is a set of human-moulded, human-extended, and human-modifying system(s).
For Christianity to work it, among many other things, would have to bypass the paradox that is derivable from the definition 'God'; have one, and only one, system, that is internally coherent and not inconsistent (which one is it? Orthodox Christianity? Unorthodox Christianity? Christianity in the 17th century? 4th? Christianity version 4.32827?). And third, it would have to be compatible with our contemporary understanding of nature. It fails on all counts.
Really though, if you're not willing to dispose of it after having been told that snakes are able to talk, you're a madman. There is no excuse for adopting and adhering to Christianity because you're weak in character and need pragmatic intervention ("Christianity gives me a set of values I can then use to fix my pathetic life!"), and there is no excuse for adopting and adhering to it because you don't care about truth, i.e., about how the world is. There are infinitely better ethical frameworks for the former scenario without having to swallow the "snakes talk", "resurrection is a real phenomenon" baggage that comes with Christianity.
>>7712934
>great
>greatness
>God
Orthodox coming through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1FzSC8DBs
Here are three threads for you OP
The case for the existence of God
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/637821/#637821
The case for why Judaism is not the legitimate successor of ancient Judaism
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/679226/#679226
The case for Christ's Resurrection as historical (note that thing about the gravity of lying is in regard to the ESSENES, not Jews in general)
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/669362
OP you are going to want to read the Bible
>>7712949
>n > 1
hahaha delete this.
>>7712973
hahaha delete your life.
>>7712949
Mate, we can't even decide on how to interpret the end of blood meridian, how is the world supposed to agree on one interpretation of the bible?
>>7712949
Go in peace, my brother.
>>7712809
>no Niebuhr
>no Tillich
modern christians these days, god fucking damnit
>>7712995
That's quite a way of saying it
>>7712995
>Tillich
Why would you include him? He thought the Crucifixion was just a metaphor, and God just means the idea you orbit your life around, and so Christianity is about God as love.
I haven't read the other guy, but Christians advocating Tillich just make me shake my head at Western theology. Happy to be Orthodox, tbqh
>>7713042
He's kinda never referenced in western theology.
>>7713106
Well he sure as hell isn't referenced in Eastern or Oriental Christianity
I don't believe, but Book of the New Sun almost convinced me
Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief
>>7714538
Wait until you reread it.
>>7712809
>No Wolfe in the fiction section
It was a great list, but you fucked it son.
>>7715577
Old list with other questionable choices
>>7712861
Catholic, my man.
>>7716207
he was asking about christians, not pagans, bro
