#christian literature

[atheostic]

You can enjoy something that has flaws, but you need to acknowledge the flaws

Me: Tolkien's Middle Earth works, especially the Hobbit, are very antisemitic.

Tolkien Fans: No they're not! What basis do you even have to make such a claim?

Me: Dwarves are a displaced group of people whose language was based on Hebrew & are described as being greedy, secretive, & with big noses/ears.

Tolkien Fans: That doesn't mean he intentionally based them on Jewish people though!

Tolkien: The dwarves of course are quite obviously, wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously, constructed to be Semitic.

#jrr tolkien #j.r.r. tolkien #tolkien fandom #religion #christianity #judaism #antisemitism #tolkien dwarves #middle earth #christian literature #the hobbit

[moosemarmalade]

#paradise lost #john milton #bible #heaven #hell #inferno #christianity #christian literature #artwork

[iambecomeafangirl]

Books I’ve read in 2024

FEBRUARY |  A. Horodeński "Śledztwo w sprawie Pana Boga" 🙏🔬🧬✝️

#2024 books #february #it's a book about physics and God #and where to look for God in physics #how would english translation of the title go? 'Investigation of God'? #i've read 3 books in february but was to lazy to make moodboards #moodboard #lit moodboard #literature moodboard #polish literature #polish lit #religious literature #religious lit #religious imagery #science book #popular science book #popular science lit #popular science literature #christian literature #christian lit #christianity #God #creation #polish #mine

[debussyandbooks]

10 rajab 1444 \\ 1 february 2023

🎧 kniven i hjärtat - mannen i blå

i haven't posted in forever and tumblr feels dead these days with like a billion softpornbots like am i to post for 200 bots lmao but oh well this evening is spent zooming with my dear, watching kniven i hjärtat for the 8th time and reading st basil's hexaemeron for the christian traditional literature circle i attend 🥰

#debussyandbooks #bookblr #books #book photography #studyblr #christian literature #christianity #st basil

[spokenalive]

#christianbooks #christian literature #faith in jesus #repentance

[penmanshipeb]

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. – Mark 1:35 I’ve come to see that in true Holiness, there is so much to do in God that we can’t do it all. I’ve come to see the need for taking full advantage of the time God gives us from the moment we awake. I’ve come to see that if we make God our all, he’ll be our all. Christ’s life was ministry. So, I’ve come to see the necessity of “Being About Our Father’s Business” from the moment we awake (Luke 2:49). The scriptures say that within Christ’s three years of ministry, “There are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen” (John 21:25). I never read that Christ said that he was bored. In the Acts of the Apostles, I never read that from any of them. However, I did read that Christ was too engaged in ministry to eat, where he said to his disciples’ urging of him to eat: “I have meat that you know not of” (John 4:31-32). I can recall that before wholly coming into God, boredom was a situation. I used to find myself bored from time to time, but in Christ, God has too much for us to do in this dying world. Boredom is no longer a factor. Truly coming into Christ is a life where GOD HAS YOUR LIFE PLANNED! IT IS A LIFE WHERE ALL WE MUST DO IS BELIEVE. The belief entails obedience, faith, and trust, or reliance on God. The faith is the action but is also the humbling of ourselves throughout our following God. The obedience is the receiving, believing, and trusting God’s word or instructions and commands to us. These great reads would also assist one in this endeavor. About MY Father’s Business showcases how others in God’s word came into God’s divine will for their lives. It establishes and illustrates his means of bringing one wholly into what He has for them. And Enduring To The End is an inspiring title to compliment one’s endeavor of fulfilling a momentous purpose. It empowers one toward excellence, to achieve, and to be great. From the moment you awake, set your heart upon what you were given life by God to do (Ecclesiates 3:21; 12:7). One can purchase these titles here:

 About My Father’s Business: https://www.slingshotmin.com/

Enduring To The End: Enduring To The End: https://www.amazon.com/Enduring-End-Personal-Testimony-Entrepreneur/dp/1736313347/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1A5LUMSEV5O2Y&keywords=odell+sanders&qid=1677001735&sprefix=%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-1

#purpose #destiny #design #goals #meaningful #meaning #Christian Inspiration #inspiration #Scriptures #scriptureoftheday #scripture #strength #Empowerment #goodreads #books #book review #book reading #book thoughts #christian literature #christian living #christian lifestyle

[mr-legoman]

Finished the Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Its a bit interesting how this book parallels and has similar ideas of Silence by Shusaku Endo. Although some parts do feel inverted in a way. The main characters feel for example almost inverted opposites of each other.

Rodriguez (Silence) is an outwardly good priest who struggles with his own pride and wants to become a martyr. And he believes he can help make a difference to the believers in Japan. He ends the story, believing he has a better understanding of God. (Which I don't believe is actually true.)

Meanwhile The Whisky Priest from The Power and the Glory. Doesn't want to become a martyr or a Saint and continually thinks of himself as pathetic. And his sin is outward. He's a drinks so often he smells and he has a illegitimate daughter. He also ends the story thinking he's a terrible priest.

Spoilers under the cut

However of the two protagonist, it's the Whisky Priest who remains faithful to Christianity in the end. And successes in his calling as a priest. The final chapter shows some of the people who the Whisky Priest encountered and how in small ways they changed. Showing that he did in fact change people. And the most important part he begs for forgiveness in his final chapter. He doesn't think he's worthy of it but he asks all the same.

Meanwhile in Silence. Rodriguez doesn't seem to overcome his pride in the in of the novel and fails as a Catholic priest. He does have a better understanding of God but is never shown to repeat after stepping on the Fume. He seems to just include that in his Martyr complex. Saying he knows more than the priest back home. He is still in sin but thinks it makes him better.

Both characters don't end in happy situations However only one of them ask God for forgiveness in his final moment.

#silence by shusaku endo #silence #shusaku endo #Catholic Novel #christian literature #japanese literature #graham greene #Don't really have a point to this #Just something I thought about #The Power and the Glory

[bones-ivy-breath]

The strife of thought, accusing and excusing, began afresh, and gathered fierceness. The soul of Lilith lay naked to the torture of pure interpenetrating inward light. She began to moan, and sigh deep sighs, then murmur as if holding colloquy with a dividual self: her queendom was no longer whole; it was divided against itself.... At length she began what seemed a tale about herself, in a language so strange, and in forms so shadowy, that I could but here and there understand a little.

Lilith by George MacDonald

#lilith #george macdonald #quote #literature #dark things #dark academia #dead academia #aesthetic #1800s #19th century #scottish literature #victorian era #victorian era literature #christian literature #womanhood

[stone-cold-groove]

Divider page from The Christian Family in the Struggle Against Hostile Powers - The Holy Family.

#christianity #christian literature #christian faith

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

“O the deep, deep love of Jesus! Vast, unmeasured, boundless free:

Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me. Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love; Leading onward, leading homeward, to Thy glorious rest above!”

“O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus” by Samuel Trevor Francis

Though we do not see Jesus in the flesh today, we can, by faith, rejoice in Him and His compassionate heart.

Read further in "The Beauty and Glory of Christ": https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/the-beauty-and-glory-of-christ-beeke-ed.html?fbclid=IwAR33zTvFMV8h_59DckGTfgnAujF7NM7NqogkHu0ngYRfKHRz_mr4V-cYmYg

#Joel Beeke #The Beauty and Glory of Christ #Christian literature #Heritage Books #heritagebooks.org

[struckbylightningorsomething]

1 Timothy 1 Commentaries and Homilies

I read some documents on 1 Timothy and I enjoyed these pieces the most so far.

Calvin's Commentaries, 1 Timothy 1 - John Calvin

Wesley's Notes on the Bible, 1 Timothy 1 - John Wesley

Homily 2 on 1 Timothy - St. John Chrysostom

Homily 5 on 1 Timothy - St. John Chrysostom

#christian #christianity #christianblr #my post #1 Timothy #John Calvin #reformed #reformed theology #arminianism #christian commentary #literature #protestant #eastern orthodox #catholic #roman catholic #St. John Chrysostom #John Chrysostom #Chrysostom #John Wesley #Methodist #Wesley #christian literature #christian commentaries #christian resources #homily #homilies

[debussyandbooks]

4 rajab 1445 \\ 18 january 2024

🎧 lavinia meijer - gnossienne no. 5

a package of books i ordered some week ago arrived, so i went and picked it up this afternoon. all judeo-christian penguin classics 🥹🥹

the ninety-five theses and other writings by martin luther

the history of the church by eusebius

the aprocryphal gospels

the kabbalistic tradition

#debussyandbooks #bookblr #books #books & libraries #book photography #booklr #book haul #religion #christian literature #jewish literature #christianity #judaism #martin luther #eusebius #kabbalah

[msgirlfangirlingposts]

"What doth thou want, my poor fellow demon? It is the endless human contradiction."

-God to the devil, in Machado de Assis', "The Devil Church".

#Quotes #My quotes #Literature #brazilian literature #Machado de assis #Christian literature #Christian #I fuckin love this tale

[elleourlittlies]

#Christian Book Reviews #Christian Literature #Christian Book Reviewers

[dentalrecruitmentireland]

#Christian Education #Bible Education Services #Education Bible #Christian Literature #Christian Book Reviewers

[redshift-13]

Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes. Yet suffer me to speak, since I speak to Thy mercy, and not to scornful men. Thou too, perhaps, despisest me, yet wilt Thou return and have compassion upon me. For what would I say, O Lord my God, but that I know not whence I came into this dying life (shall I call it?) or living death.

-Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

Reading this for the first time as I listen to Gregorian chant and eat my passable and not really delicious Indian lentils and rice dish.

#confessions of a materialist and spiritual naturalist #augustine of hippo #christian literature #psychological kinship despite metaphysical disagreement