#it's henri de lubac's the drama of atheistic humanism

[megkuna]

love ordering books from the “controversial literature” subject category of the library. very confused about what’s in that in general actually

[bustakay]

Nietzsche’s feelings with regard to Jesus always remained mixed, and so did his judgments on Christianity. There are times when he sees in it not so much a false ideal as one that is worn out. “It is our stricter and more finely tempered piety”, he says, “that stops us from still being Christians today.” Thus his animosity is against the Christians of our day, against us. The lash of his scorn is for our mediocrities and our hypocrisies. It searches out our weakness, adorn with fine names. In reminding us of the robust and joyous austerity of “primitive Christianity” he calls shame on our “present-day Christianity”, as “mawkish and nebulous”. 

Can it be contended that he is quite wrong? Should “everything that now goes by the name of Christian” be defended against him? When he says of us, for instance: “If they want me to believe in their Savior, they’ll have to sing me better hymns! His followers will have to look more like men who have been saved!”—are we entitled to be indignant? To how many of us does Christianity really seem “something big, something with joy and enthusiasm”? Do the unbelievers who jostle us at every turn observe on our brows the radiance of that gladness which, twenty centuries ago, captivated the fine flower of the pagan world? Are our hearts the hearts of men risen with Christ? Do we, in our time, bear witness to the Beatitudes? In a word, while we are full alive to the blasphemy in Nietzsche’s terrible phrase and in its whole context, are we not also forced to see in ourselves something of what drove him to such blasphemy?

Henri De Lubac, The Drama of Atheist Humanism  

[scrapleaves]

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 

Persuasion by Jane Austen 

Emma by Jane Austen 

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 

Middlemarch by George Eliot 

Love Story by Erich Segal

Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2) by Anthony Trollope 

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Interior Castle by Teresa of Ávila

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber 

The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Ulysses by James Joyce

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The God Who Is There by Francis A. Schaeffer 

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert 

H.M. Pulham, Esq. by John P. Marquand 

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 

The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts by Umberto Eco 

On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler 

The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks 

Writings in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure

Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

The Orthodox Church by Kallistos Ware

A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3) by Anthony Powell 

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James 

Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill 

The Drama of Atheist Humanism by Henri de Lubac 

The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous

Dark Night of the Soul by Juan de la Cruz 

V. by Thomas Pynchon 

Sarrasine by Honoré de Balzac

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 

New French Feminisms by Elaine Marks