An outline of my Christian resources
I am reaching the limit of my collecting the Christian stuff, well i see to the end of 2023 what will be gotten, after that, there'll be at least one series that'll still be ongoing, the Mastricht 7 volume to be exact. 2023 will be for buying supreme Puritan and Reformed resources.
2 weeks ago roughly this need came to me, the thing that kicked it off was seeing Phillip Melanchthon's Loci Communes in Kindle Unlimited.
Way back in the day i had wished so hard to have that, the 1st Protestant systematic theology.
I want this post to be my last post about these things for at least awhile, if you wanna hear more from me about this stuff, look at my older posts.
So a little history, from age 16 or so to early 20's off and on i professed belief, which i see now as either not real or the thing mentally assented to wasn't real.
During this time Nietzsche was a real eye opener, i hopped from them both at least a couple times before keeping off the god sauce for most of the time till now.
It was always something i'm interested in, and the Reformed tradition and view is the kind of doctrinal set up i most agree with, but i always have a dual mindset, i have the normal me who's a madcap blasphemer, cynic and skeptic and all that, but with a absurd leaning instead of science, AND the mindset that supposes that belief stuff is true. To sum up my current mindset overall is that things are open, that i'd be a fool to make up my mind.
Kierkegaard is big too, from him i see that a Christianity that the world hasn't anything against is a false Christianity.
Outline
without doing all the names, i'll just sketch out the main categories
The Early Church Fathers - this is what i splurged on today, all very cheap, these were the dudes that wrote and taught for the first few centuries, it's exciting to contemplate how it all got started to be the biggest religion on earth, all those heresies they battled and stuff. One of the things i got that i didn't mention yet in other posts is Iraneus' Against Heretics, which i scented the sweet lore of when i dug a little into Cioran's gnostic leanings, that were it not for Iraneus, much of those sources would be completely lost!! ... So big time for the ECF, thousands of hours worth of reading there.
Then these folks - Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Thomas Aquinas.
The Reformed - now this is where i center my theological leaning most from Luther to Beeke, see earlier posts for more.
And then a couple early 20th century dudes G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis who are kinda Reformed friendly, Lewis gets a lot of love from the Reformed community at least.
also a little bit of offshoots, things like Mormonism, so i'll be on the look out for some Scientology books lol
Closing thoughts - the Christian religion is very much still a part of this world, and i feel is misrepresented a lot, there is more danger there than in the thing itself if you ask me. Those who use it politically. My elaborate study of it is in part a coming to terms with something that seemingly made such an impact in my earlier life, and i've reacted to strongly for and against towards, and so to live mentally in this world with it's greatest spokespersons seems to me a good little idea. Will i be different as a result, i sure hope so, why stay the same eh? So it'll have one of three results - 1) make me more resolute against it, 2) to change drastically, or 3) see it much more clearly in relation to other beliefs. ..... The Church is a thing that's set apart from the world, the believer is to be a part of the world and not of it. All these things i like, and see in some way being de-religionized in my own outlook, that i see the world as something fundamentally different, at least as a foundational mindset for doing what i'm doing is that felt comradeship.
2 weeks ago roughly this need came to me, the thing that kicked it off was seeing Phillip Melanchthon's Loci Communes in Kindle Unlimited.
Way back in the day i had wished so hard to have that, the 1st Protestant systematic theology.
I want this post to be my last post about these things for at least awhile, if you wanna hear more from me about this stuff, look at my older posts.
So a little history, from age 16 or so to early 20's off and on i professed belief, which i see now as either not real or the thing mentally assented to wasn't real.
During this time Nietzsche was a real eye opener, i hopped from them both at least a couple times before keeping off the god sauce for most of the time till now.
It was always something i'm interested in, and the Reformed tradition and view is the kind of doctrinal set up i most agree with, but i always have a dual mindset, i have the normal me who's a madcap blasphemer, cynic and skeptic and all that, but with a absurd leaning instead of science, AND the mindset that supposes that belief stuff is true. To sum up my current mindset overall is that things are open, that i'd be a fool to make up my mind.
Kierkegaard is big too, from him i see that a Christianity that the world hasn't anything against is a false Christianity.
Outline
without doing all the names, i'll just sketch out the main categories
The Early Church Fathers - this is what i splurged on today, all very cheap, these were the dudes that wrote and taught for the first few centuries, it's exciting to contemplate how it all got started to be the biggest religion on earth, all those heresies they battled and stuff. One of the things i got that i didn't mention yet in other posts is Iraneus' Against Heretics, which i scented the sweet lore of when i dug a little into Cioran's gnostic leanings, that were it not for Iraneus, much of those sources would be completely lost!! ... So big time for the ECF, thousands of hours worth of reading there.
Then these folks - Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Thomas Aquinas.
The Reformed - now this is where i center my theological leaning most from Luther to Beeke, see earlier posts for more.
And then a couple early 20th century dudes G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis who are kinda Reformed friendly, Lewis gets a lot of love from the Reformed community at least.
also a little bit of offshoots, things like Mormonism, so i'll be on the look out for some Scientology books lol
Closing thoughts - the Christian religion is very much still a part of this world, and i feel is misrepresented a lot, there is more danger there than in the thing itself if you ask me. Those who use it politically. My elaborate study of it is in part a coming to terms with something that seemingly made such an impact in my earlier life, and i've reacted to strongly for and against towards, and so to live mentally in this world with it's greatest spokespersons seems to me a good little idea. Will i be different as a result, i sure hope so, why stay the same eh? So it'll have one of three results - 1) make me more resolute against it, 2) to change drastically, or 3) see it much more clearly in relation to other beliefs. ..... The Church is a thing that's set apart from the world, the believer is to be a part of the world and not of it. All these things i like, and see in some way being de-religionized in my own outlook, that i see the world as something fundamentally different, at least as a foundational mindset for doing what i'm doing is that felt comradeship.
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