Chestertonian Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 (edited) I'll start Nonfiction: GK Chesterton Fiction: Ann Rice Edited August 14, 2009 by Chestertonian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 [quote name='Chestertonian' post='1948792' date='Aug 14 2009, 11:53 AM']I'll start Nonfiction: GK Chesterton Fiction: Ann Rice[/quote] I can only speak to non fiction Ratzinger, Anscombe and Dummett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Oh... Favorite? Like, I have to [i]choose[/i]?! Let's see.... fiction first. I think I might have to echo the original poster's choice of Anne Rice. Her writing is EXCELLENT and of all fiction authors, she's probably the one whom I have read the most works by and come back to read them again and again. I have other novels that I might place over hers, but overall, she gets most of my favorite novels. Non-fiction... now this is very difficult. I might have to say Lewis. Although, I really enjoy reading Ratzinger as well. But I've read more of Lewis than Ratzinger. Gah! I don't know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scardella Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Fiction - God Nonfiction - God Any questions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidei Defensor Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Well, he's not Catholic, he's Anglican, but C.S. Lewis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Fiction-Franz Werfel Non-Fiction- George Weigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestertonian Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1948798' date='Aug 14 2009, 11:00 AM']I can only speak to non fiction Ratzinger, Anscombe and Dummett[/quote] Didn't Anscombe debate CS Lewis, or am I thinking of someone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestertonian Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 [quote name='fidei defensor' post='1949003' date='Aug 14 2009, 04:01 PM']Well, he's not Catholic, he's Anglican, but C.S. Lewis.[/quote] His fiction or non-fiction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 (edited) [quote name='Chestertonian' post='1949322' date='Aug 14 2009, 10:55 PM']Didn't Anscombe debate CS Lewis, or am I thinking of someone else?[/quote] Yes, over his chapter in "Miricles" where he claimed to refute naturalism. I think the title is now "The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism" or something like that. He revised it after their debate. And that was when she was still a student. I'm actually excited that someone else here had heard of her I also should have included Chesterton. Edited August 15, 2009 by Hassan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resurrexi Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Nonfiction - St. John the Apostle. Fiction - Dante. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestertonian Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1949326' date='Aug 14 2009, 09:59 PM']Yes, over his chapter in "Miricles" where he claimed to refute naturalism. I think the title is now "The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism" or something like that. He revised it after their debate. And that was when she was still a student.[/quote] Yeah, that's pretty impressive considering CS Lewis was one of the more formidable debaters of his day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Was Agatha Christie Catholic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 [quote name='Chestertonian' post='1949341' date='Aug 15 2009, 12:30 AM']Yeah, that's pretty impressive considering CS Lewis was one of the more formidable debaters of his day.[/quote] I think Anscombe was a pretty impressive person in general. Her article protesting Oxford presenting Truman with an honary PhD turned my political thinking upside down in many ways. I think it is a terrible shame. I don't have much respect for most of the popular Christian apologists today. Yet it seems that they are fameous while Anscombe is unknown to most of the Catholic Community. That is understandable as most of her work was in a very narrow field of Analytic philosophy and as Wittgenstein's literary agent , but a lot of her popular writting is both brilliant and accessable to general audiences. Michael Dummett too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resurrexi Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1949443' date='Aug 15 2009, 02:11 AM']I think it is a terrible shame. I don't have much respect for most of the popular Christian apologists today.[/quote] Pop apologetics can be incredibly annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat22 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 mohammed....... oh wait..... um...... Louis De Wohl's pretty good. then again i haven't read a whole lot a catholic books. i just have a hard time picking up a religious book when there's a sci-fi novel laying right there. ya know what i mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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