favourite theologian

[beatitude]

10 hours ago, Basilisa Marie said:

Bonhoeffer. 

I love Bonhoeffer too. Also in the modern era, I'm a fan of Brother Roger of Taize, Jean Vanier, Heldar Camara, Caryll Houselander, and St Edith Stein. Going a little further back, Cardinal John Henry Newman and Father Faber. Further back still, St Bonaventure, and further back still, the Desert Fathers and Mothers. It would be very hard to choose just one.

[MarysLittleFlower]

I like Fr Faber too and Dietrich von Hildebrand though I'm not sure if he's a theologian or a philosopher 

[Kia ora]

Kierkegaard is my bromie. Derrida aint a theologian but he definitely theologises. Simone weil is my hero.

Nietzsche is my theologiser - any god that exists must not be like the god he deconstructs. He tells me what christianity must not be. Nagarjuna, the buddhist philosopher speaks nothing about god but all his words speak of god. Shantideva. Dogen. Shinran. Tsongkhapa. The yogacarins. 

So does al ghazali. So does ibn arabi - i am learning arabic and persian just to read more islamic theology.

St dionysius the areopagite. Meister eckhart. Hadewijch. St augustine. Nicholas de cusa. Eriguena. St maximus the confessor. The cappadocian fathers. Lovr the greeks. Love the syriacs. Luther. 

The aztec theologians (srsly worth a read - their pantheism is something worth considering). Heidegger. The shaivaite and vashnaivate hindu bhakti poets. Heck makes me want to learn tamil and telugu.

I have an ecclectic reading list, if you want more info i can talk about each and every one and why they are so important to me. 

Edited December 15, 2015 by Kia ora

[Papist]

St. Augustine and Frank Sheed.

[Era Might]

Should have added Pseudo-Dionysius too.

[Amppax]

20 hours ago, Cam42 said:

Chesterton, Sheen, and Cantalamessa.

I also am a strict Thomist and find the work of Gihr to be fantastic with regard to the liturgy.  But, one cannot go wrong with Fortescue and O'Connell, either.

My all time favorite though, is John Henry Cardinal Newman.

Fr. Cantalamessa the papal preacher? 

Too difficult to pick one.

Argh, I hate it when replies merge. I personally can't pick just one, or even a couple really. A time period would have been helpful. 

[Cam42]

42 minutes ago, Amppax said:

Fr. Cantalamessa the papal preacher? 

Too difficult to pick one.

Argh, I hate it when replies merge. I personally can't pick just one, or even a couple really. A time period would have been helpful. 

Yes, Cantalamessa, the Papal preacher.

[PhuturePriest]

On 12/14/2015, 5:50:49, Basilisa Marie said:

Bonhoeffer. 

Liberal.

[Basilisa Marie]

1 hour ago, PhuturePriest said:

Liberal.

• "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
• "To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ."
• "Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate... Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." 
• "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."

Yeah. Dude was a raging liberal all right.

[Cam42]

5 hours ago, PhuturePriest said:

Liberal.

Protestant.  That's the big issue with Bonhoeffer.  However, he does have some very liberal ideas, from a Catholic point of view.

[PhuturePriest]

3 hours ago, Basilisa Marie said:

• "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
• "To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ."
• "Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate... Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." 
• "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."

Yeah. Dude was a raging liberal all right.

 

8 minutes ago, Cam42 said:

Protestant.  That's the big issue with Bonhoeffer.  However, he does have some very liberal ideas, from a Catholic point of view.

I have no issue with Bonhoeffer. His story is cool, from what I can tell.

[Cam42]

1 minute ago, PhuturePriest said:

 

I have no issue with Bonhoeffer. His story is cool, from what I can tell.

Meh....he's a Lutheran....haha.