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I prefer to go straight Bible + Prayer + Meditation. Christian philosophers are as unnecessary as the pope.

C.S. Lewis

It's spooky.

>>2160
This is what most protestants say, but the pope is not unnecessary.
the catholic church is the Christian center of the world and its doctrine is just as important today as it was in luther's time.

"Understanding this first, that no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation."
The "sacred science" as aquinas calls it, is founded upon the study of divine truths, revealed to us by revelation.
For protestants, the bible really is a matter of interpretation, because the majority of them are not prepared to understand things like divine mysteries or for that matter the bible.
Granted, knowledge is not a prerequisite for divine truth, but it almost always accompanies it.

>>2163
>for protestants
the popes do the same thing, every one with different opinions on and interpretations of the same old texts. why would meanings and "the truth" change over time?

I always liked Leo Tolstoy's Christian Anarchism philosophy.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you

>>2158
>Christian philosophy thread
>No mention of Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ would be mine.

I really like Origen and a lot of the Gnostic or Christian Mystic authors.

I've also been reading Augustine's City of God for the past month which has been alright so far, but I wish his condemnation of paganism wasn't so long. Also been reading Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses which has been pretty good so far.

>>2164
The pope doesn't just change catholic doctrine, the church has a good spirit of reformation, guided by the holy spirit.
The popes have different personalities, and they place different importance on different subjects as they relate to our ever changing world.
However, the doctrine is built from the top-down.

I thought this book was pretty good. A little new agey, but still a good resource for those studying historic Christian mysticism.

>>2166
well, he's not that bad, but he has pretty unpopular views

trinitarianism doesn't make any sense and has no scriptural basis

>>2222

Which trinity?

>>2224
Probably referring to the hypostatic union of the chalcedonian creed.

>>2226
Whoops spelled the tripcode wrong.

>>2226

What about something more along the lines of emanationism?

Mostly Kierkegaard and Lewis.

>>2230
I've never considered that Christian, it has its similarities to the argument from contingency but when people begin to write things that aren't completely honest about the ontology of it, the gaps tend to get filled in quite imaginatively, and this is sort of the basis for esoterism.