From Achilles to Christ Quotes

“For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. (Acts 17:26-28)”
― Louis Markos, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

“Were we not all created in 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?”
― Louis Markos, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

“In pointing out this parallel, I do not suggest that Hesiod is somehow the Greek equivalent of Moses or that his Theogony is to be granted the same status as Genesis.”
― Louis Markos, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

“In Dublin in 1852, Newman delivered a series of nine discourses intended to set the tone for a proposed Catholic university in Ireland. These discourses represent, to my mind, the finest modern attempt to unite the twin legacies of Athens and Jerusalem. Though the university was never built, the discourses were published as The Idea of a University, and in this form they continue to beckon believers in the Christian revelation to consider the legacy of the ancients.”
― Louis Markos, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

“You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters;”
― Louis Markos, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

“Thomistic synthesis.”
― Louis Markos, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics