From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan ClassicsInterVarsity Press, 20 wrz 2009 "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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... forces Python to recognize His ministers, and baptizes by the hand of the misbeliever. He is with the heathen dramatist in his denunciations of injustice and tyranny, and his auguries of divine vengeance upon crime. Even on the unseemly ...
... forces Python to recognize His ministers, and baptizes by the hand of the misbeliever. He is with the heathen dramatist in his denunciations of injustice and tyranny, and his auguries of divine vengeance upon crime. Even on the unseemly ...
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... forces of earth, night and love, and out of the former two came, with the help of Love, heaven and day. As in Genesis 1, order is established through a process of separation: earth from heaven, night from day. But here too there is a ...
... forces of earth, night and love, and out of the former two came, with the help of Love, heaven and day. As in Genesis 1, order is established through a process of separation: earth from heaven, night from day. But here too there is a ...
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... forces that goddess, Thetis, to marry a mortal man, Peleus, so that her son, Achilles, will be a mortal and pose no threat to Zeus's rule. These machinations are as unpleasant as they are heartless, and they expose the new monarch of ...
... forces that goddess, Thetis, to marry a mortal man, Peleus, so that her son, Achilles, will be a mortal and pose no threat to Zeus's rule. These machinations are as unpleasant as they are heartless, and they expose the new monarch of ...
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... forces the paranoid Agamemnon to follow through with his threat. His pride wounded, Achilles expands his tantrum to epic proportions. Not only does he pull out of the battle; he instructs his divine mother to go to Zeus and ask him to ...
... forces the paranoid Agamemnon to follow through with his threat. His pride wounded, Achilles expands his tantrum to epic proportions. Not only does he pull out of the battle; he instructs his divine mother to go to Zeus and ask him to ...
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... force that is not to be trifled with. Homer understood tentatively and imperfectly what the Old Testament teaches directly and clearly: that wrath is as much a quality of the divine as love or mercy. Of course Homer, lacking direct ...
... force that is not to be trifled with. Homer understood tentatively and imperfectly what the Old Testament teaches directly and clearly: that wrath is as much a quality of the divine as love or mercy. Of course Homer, lacking direct ...
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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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