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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... hope and love. As H. Richard Niebuhr has shown in his illuminating study Christ and Culture (1951), the Roman Catholic church has a strong tradition of viewing Christ and Christianity as representing the culmination and fulfillment of ...
... hope and love. As H. Richard Niebuhr has shown in his illuminating study Christ and Culture (1951), the Roman Catholic church has a strong tradition of viewing Christ and Christianity as representing the culmination and fulfillment of ...
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... hope that life could spring out of death and that we, perhaps, could share in that new life. If I am right and the Greeks of John's Gospel were members of this an- cient cult—a cult well known throughout the Near East—then Jesus' reply ...
... hope that life could spring out of death and that we, perhaps, could share in that new life. If I am right and the Greeks of John's Gospel were members of this an- cient cult—a cult well known throughout the Near East—then Jesus' reply ...
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... hope to understand ourselves if we do not know our own history? And if we do not know where we came from in the historical realm, how can we know where we came from in the spiritual realm? If our study of the great pagan historians and ...
... hope to understand ourselves if we do not know our own history? And if we do not know where we came from in the historical realm, how can we know where we came from in the spiritual realm? If our study of the great pagan historians and ...
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... hope to explode (or at least shake) these ingrained modernist, post-Reformation, post- Enlightenment prejudices. In the chapters themselves, the poetry of Homer, Virgil and the tragedians will be considered from two distinct but ...
... hope to explode (or at least shake) these ingrained modernist, post-Reformation, post- Enlightenment prejudices. In the chapters themselves, the poetry of Homer, Virgil and the tragedians will be considered from two distinct but ...
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... hope that readers will study it alongside the actual works of Homer, Virgil and the tragedians. To facilitate this study, I have included a bibliographical essay in which I point out some key resources that the nonspecialist should find ...
... hope that readers will study it alongside the actual works of Homer, Virgil and the tragedians. To facilitate this study, I have included a bibliographical essay in which I point out some key resources that the nonspecialist should find ...
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A History of Conflict | 36 |
Civilization versus Barbarism | 49 |
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 |
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