From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

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InterVarsity Press, 20 sept. 2009
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"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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pretty good, has some interesting insights into the process of perspective reading. "indulges the mind and insnares the senses". i love how it looks into the logistics of martin luthers' reading. Consulter l'avis complet

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ACHILLES TO CHRIST Aegisthus Aeneas Aeneas’s Aeneid Aeschylus Aeschylus’s Agamemnon ancient Antigone Athens Atreus Augustus Bacchae battle battlefield begins Bible Book Carthage Christian civilization Clytemnestra conflict Creon death defeat Deianira Dido difficult Dionysus divine Electra embodies epic Euripides father fight fighting final find fire first flesh glory God’s goddess gods Greece Greek Tragedies guest-host heart Hektor Helen Heracles hero Hesiod Hippolytus Homer Homer’s Illiad Homer’s Odyssey honor human Iliad immortal Ithaca Jason Jesus Jupiter kill king live Medea Menelaus mortal mother Neoptolemus Odysseus Odysseus’s Oedipus Old Testament Oresteia Orestes pagan passion Penelope Pentheus Phaeacia Philoctetes play plot poet polis Priam Prometheus prophecy prophetic reader Roman Rome sacred sacrifice scapegoat ships Sophocles story struggle suffer suitors Telemachus tells Theogony things tragic Trojan Troy true truth Turnus Virgil Virgil’s Aeneid virtues warrior wife women wrath xenia Zeus

À propos de l'auteur (2009)

Louis Markos holds a BA in English and History from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, where he teaches courses on British Romantic and Victorian Poetry and Prose, the Classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and Film. Dr. Markos holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities and teaches classes on Ancient Greece and Rome for HBU s Honors College. He is the author of 9 books:From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics, Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age, The Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World like a Romantic Poet, Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World, Apologetics for the 21st Century, Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis, Literature: A Student s Guide, On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue in Tolkien and Lewis, and Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition.

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TitreFrom Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics
AuteurLouis Markos
ÉditeurInterVarsity Press, 2009
ISBN0830875298, 9780830875290
  
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