/lit/ - Literature

>Year of our Lord 2021
>He is still reading political theory and philosophy
>He does not exclusively read theology
You're way behind the curve buddy. We, on our collective journey towards a restoration to fullness, have already dropped the petty politics and philosophies that lead nowhere. If you participate in politics, if you study philosophy, if you are still an atheist you're ngmi.

>>17593513
orthodoxy has Seraphim Rose

>>15516475
What's some literature that'll BTFO my atheism and nihilism?

I'm planning to attend an orthodox church after quarantine.

>It so happens that Rene Guenon was the chief influence in the formation of my own intellectual outlook (quite apart from the question of Orthodox Christianity). I read and studied with eagerness all his books that I could get a hold of; through his influence I studied ·the ancient Chinese language and resolved to do for the Chinese tradition what he had done for the Hindu; I was even able to meet and study with a genuine representative of the Chinese tradition and understood full well what he means by the difference between such authentic teachers and the mere "professors" who teach in the universities.

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>It so happens that René Guénon was the chief influence in the formation of my own intellectual outlook (quite apart from the question of Orthodox Christianity). I read and studied with eagerness all his books that I could get ahold of; through his influence I studied the ancient Chinese language and resolved to do for the Chinese tradition what he had done for the Hindu; I was even able to meet and study with a genuine representative of the Chinese tradition and understood full well what he means by the difference between such authentic teachers and the mere "professors" who teach in the universities.

>It was René Guénon who taught me to seek and love Truth above all else, and to be unsatisfied with anything else; this is what finally brought me to the Orthodox Church. Perhaps a word of my experience will be of help for you to know.

>For years in my studies I was satisfied with being "above all traditions" but somehow faithful to them; I only went deeper into the Chinese tradition because no one had presented it in the West from a fully traditional point of view. When I visited an Orthodox Church, it was only in order to view another "tradition"—knowing that Guénon (and one of his disciples) had described Orthodoxy as the most authentic of the Christian traditions.

>However, when I entered an Orthodox Church for the first time (a Russian Church in San Francisco), something happened to me that I had not experienced in any Buddhist or other Eastern temple; something in my heart said that this is "home," that all my search was over. I didn't really know what this meant, because the service was quite strange to me, and in a foreign language. I began to attend Orthodox services more frequently, gradually learning its language and customs, but still keeping all my basic Guénonian ideas about all the authentic spiritual traditions.

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>>8751554
Christianity should not be intellectual, you must open your heart to Christ and not your mind. You cannot understand scripture without faith, and it can be very dangerous to read without the proper training.
>>8751605
Faith is based on perceived truth and does not comply to a shopping list or what is most exotic.