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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... begin with a caveat. The debt of gratitude we owe Luther is immense, and we deviate from him at our peril. He helped to restore theology to its biblical Pauline roots and to render the gospel of salvation by grace through faith more ...
... begin with a caveat. The debt of gratitude we owe Luther is immense, and we deviate from him at our peril. He helped to restore theology to its biblical Pauline roots and to render the gospel of salvation by grace through faith more ...
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... begins his proclamation of Christ's resurrection—the heart of the gospel as it is taught and disseminated in Acts—by complimenting the Athenians on their building of an altar to an unknown god. Rather than expose their pagan idolatry as ...
... begins his proclamation of Christ's resurrection—the heart of the gospel as it is taught and disseminated in Acts—by complimenting the Athenians on their building of an altar to an unknown god. Rather than expose their pagan idolatry as ...
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... begins with a vast, sweeping brushstroke that serves as the stage and backdrop of his Christian-humanist canvas: Man, with his motives and works, his languages, his propagation, his diffusion, is from Him. Agriculture, medicine, and the ...
... begins with a vast, sweeping brushstroke that serves as the stage and backdrop of his Christian-humanist canvas: Man, with his motives and works, his languages, his propagation, his diffusion, is from Him. Agriculture, medicine, and the ...
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... begins with the book of Genesis; in the Greek, it begins with Hesiod's Theogony. HE ON WHOM THE MUSE BREATHES Hesiod stands side by side with Homer at the head of that flood we call Western civilization. In keeping with most classicists ...
... begins with the book of Genesis; in the Greek, it begins with Hesiod's Theogony. HE ON WHOM THE MUSE BREATHES Hesiod stands side by side with Homer at the head of that flood we call Western civilization. In keeping with most classicists ...
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... begin.2 Hesiod presents himself here as far more than a frustrated artist in need of an Olympian cure for writer's block. The divine breath of the Muse car- ries with it a calling; he is to be a channel not only of inspiration, but of ...
... begin.2 Hesiod presents himself here as far more than a frustrated artist in need of an Olympian cure for writer's block. The divine breath of the Muse car- ries with it a calling; he is to be a channel not only of inspiration, but of ...
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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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