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Books that helped me understand Till We Have Faces better: - The Four Loves - Confessions - The Weight of Glory - Phaedrus - Symposium - Consolation of Philosophy - Metamorphoses/Golden Ass - De Deo Socratis (Apuleius) - A Grief Observed

@CoffeeandIrony The only one of his I have read is A Farewell to Arms, which I do think is good, and certainly takes place partially in summer?? But I am not going to be much help on this question.

Q: I'm feeling a strange urge to read Hemingway, despite being in the middle of a year-long project to read the 19th-century canon, which has been going well. Are there any of Hemingway's works that are summer or spring coded? (Yes, I have read him before and I do know almost everything he wrote was depressing btw😄)

An exquisite poem that finds Pathos and Carpe Diem shaking hands like old friends. A.E. Housman 🖎

@John_Attridge *if your story is

Writers, please, avoid adjectives. If your story is good enough, it shouldn't need any

@realKlemens @metathomist Christ has one body which exists not in only one denomination

@also_psyche @metathomist Christ has multiple bodies?

You’d be surprised how many Protestant objections to Catholicism center on sex. Contraception. Celibacy. Mary’s virginity. Divorce. Remarriage. Masturbation. IVF. Premarital sex.

@timesnewemma (as a Midwesterner who also used to think she didn't have an accent)

@timesnewemma I hear it in my vowels lol

i didn’t think that i, as a midwesterner, had an accent, but i just heard someone pronounce every letter in the word important, so maybe i do

@Andrewnsnyder @_kylemetz Is that the Bacchae??

Tolkien’s true passion was The Musical and that’s why there are so many songs in LotR

I believe we live in a fantasy world and no one can convince me otherwise. If there’s magic in your eyes.. you will see it. Look at the world as it truly is

"I did not make it, no it is making me; it is the very truth of God, not the invention of any man"

@TheCatholicEngr My issue with it is not to do with celibacy/virginity. I actually think protestantism could do with a bit more intentional adult celibacy! I like a lot of aspects of monasticism! The real question is the telos and definition of marriage.

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@lymanstoneky @MarkRome17 Where is this? I have never heard this theory and am pretty sure Paul was explicitly and intentionally celibate

@MarkRome17 Paul was married and he sends a hello to his wife in the pages of scripture itself, as recognized by many of the early church fathers.

It’s a very fun troll Of course the truth is Mary did have other children, and also that Paul was a married man. Some traditions really are incorrect, even if pious

@timotheeology As a Lutheran who believes the Eucharist is truly Christ's body, *and* believes that John 6 is Eucharistic, I do not fit into most anyone's preconceived categories!

I still can't believe Protestantism exists. (John 6:)

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@juskthen @metathomist Well, I must disagree, as I believe Catholics are Christians!

@metathomist @also_psyche She said she is a "Christian" my guy. So that catholic church is kind of out of the picture already.

@metathomist That's a pretty loaded statement. Do you not believe that someone might have real faith and be sincerely desiring Christ fully but just not agree with you on all doctrine?

@also_psyche You do if you want to fully commit to Christ and believe in all that He teaches.

@AlexToropoc @Isabelletkrause Even if this were at all true--not a single creed or denomination defines Christianity by its adherents' willingness to represent redemptive stories in their fiction.

@Isabelletkrause Tolkien is a weak thinker because he doesn't make room for redemption, thus, he is not a Christian. Look at Gollum - he sins, destroys his life, but where is the redemption, the need for god's absolution? None. A great thinker would've made Gollum the hero, to redeem himself.

What blew my mind most about the Lord of the Rings was how perfectly a fantasy story represented evil & temptation and how it works in each of our lives. The Ring doesn't make you evil overnight. But it whispers in your ear, it makes the wrong decision feel so incredibly reasonable, it tells you that this time will be different. How many times in our life do we have this conversation in our head? I’ve had it, many times. And the longer you hold onto it, the harder it becomes to let go. Which is just crazy. The things we know are destroying us are often the things we can’t put down. Frodo didn't fail because he was weak. He failed because no one is strong enough to carry sin alone forever. We are all Frodo, that's kind of the whole point.

@jondelarroz @JackPosobiec If having characters who pray and attend church on-page is the requirement for a book to be Christian, then a lot of very Christian books have suddenly been stricken off the list

Turns out @JackPosobiec wasn't wrong. There's a whole Wikipedia page on how pagan Lord of the Rings is. "Given that Middle-earth is the Earth in the distant past, long before the time of Christ, he could not make his characters Christian." Will people apologize to him?

@metathomist I just don't believe that your church is Christ's only church.

@also_psyche Now you just have to enter into full communion with Christs Church and you’ll be good to go.

@michaeljknowles Excellent question. I do not hold to it dogmatically (yet) but I am wary of dismissing the Reformers' views

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Wesley?