From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan ClassicsInterVarsity Press, 2009 M09 20 "The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact." --C. S. Lewis In From Achilles to Christ, Louis Markos introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian perspective. From the battles of Achilles and the adventures of Odysseus to the feats of Hercules and the trials of Aeneas, Markos shows how the characters, themes and symbols within these myths both foreshadow and find their fulfillment in the story of Jesus Christ--the "myth made fact." Along the way, he dispels misplaced fears about the dangers of reading classical literature, and offers a Christian approach to the interpretation and appropriation of these great literary works. This engaging and eminently readable book is an excellent resource for Christian students, teachers and readers of classical literature. |
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... God who is truth. If it is true, as Paul teaches in Acts 17:26- 28, that we were all made in his image, that he is not far from us, that in him we live and move and have our being, then it must also be true that those timeless works of ...
... God who is truth. If it is true, as Paul teaches in Acts 17:26- 28, that we were all made in his image, that he is not far from us, that in him we live and move and have our being, then it must also be true that those timeless works of ...
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... God's image, and though we are all fallen from our original state, does not a spark of divine fire remain in each of us? I would surmise that most believers, evangelical or otherwise, would an- swer yes to that last question and would ...
... God's image, and though we are all fallen from our original state, does not a spark of divine fire remain in each of us? I would surmise that most believers, evangelical or otherwise, would an- swer yes to that last question and would ...
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... God-fearing men with a sensitivity to God's spirit, they knew that when they finally encountered it, they would recognize it. The path they trod to Bethlehem may have led them geographically west, but their journey's true spiritual ...
... God-fearing men with a sensitivity to God's spirit, they knew that when they finally encountered it, they would recognize it. The path they trod to Bethlehem may have led them geographically west, but their journey's true spiritual ...
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... God you shed your light. When you declared [in the Fourth Eclogue], “A new birth has been given. Justice returns, and the first age of man. And a new progeny descends from Heaven”— you were as one who leads through the dark track ...
... God you shed your light. When you declared [in the Fourth Eclogue], “A new birth has been given. Justice returns, and the first age of man. And a new progeny descends from Heaven”— you were as one who leads through the dark track ...
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... GOD MADE KNOWN All well and good, the critic might say, but why should we take Dante's word on this? Where is the biblical precedent for such an embrace of the pagan and the mythic as a potential starting point for the journey toward ...
... GOD MADE KNOWN All well and good, the critic might say, but why should we take Dante's word on this? Where is the biblical precedent for such an embrace of the pagan and the mythic as a potential starting point for the journey toward ...
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A New Ethic | 60 |
From Wrath to Reconciliation | 69 |
Coming of Age | 79 |
The Tragedy of Character | 157 |
The Naïve and the Sentimental | 167 |
Apollonian versus Dionysiac | 179 |
VIRGIL | 191 |
The Sacred History of Rome | 193 |
The Making of a Roman Epic | 202 |
The Fall of Troy | 210 |
Aeneas and Dido | 219 |
Coming Home | 89 |
The Journeys of Odysseus | 100 |
THE GREEK TRAGEDIANS | 113 |
The Birth of Tragedy | 115 |
Pagan Poets and Hebrew Prophets | 124 |
The Human Scapegoat | 135 |
Questions of Duty | 146 |
To Hell and Back | 229 |
Just War? | 237 |
The Myth Made Fact | 247 |
Bibliographical Essay | 251 |
Index | 258 |
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