The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyes

faith-and-doubt

• Christian writers whose faith was strengthened rather than weakened by their interactions with Greek and Roman myth and philosophy.

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• The pagans he most admired—Aeschylus, Plato, Virgil—were the ones who came closest to Christianity and played an important role in Lewis's journey to faith.

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• Sophocles somehow intuited that those once far off might be reconciled to God, though he did not know it would be in the blood of Christ.

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education-and-formation

• What the law requires is written on their hearts; their conscience bears witness—pagans are a law to themselves.

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• Christian parents must introduce children early to the Bible and the great patriarchs, heroic forerunners of Christ, to guard against mere social advancement.

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mortality

• When we lose the fear of God, we stray off course and become controlled by our lusts rather than by the Spirit—yearning for the very things that destroy us.

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