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From Plato to Christ : how Platonic thought shaped the Christian faith / Louis Markos.

by Markos, Louis, author.

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Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2021]

Plato -- Influence.

Christianity -- Philosophy -- History.

9780830853045 (paperback)

0830853049 (paperback)

xvi, 234 pages ; 23 cm

PART I. Plato's pre-Christian Vision -- 1. Socrates, the Sophists, and the Presocratics -- 2. Republic -- 3. The myths: part I -- 4. The myths: part II -- 5. Laws -- 6. Timaeus -- PART II. Plato's Christian Legacy -- 7. The rising path -- 8. Origen's musings -- 9. Plato in the East : the three Gregorys -- 10. Plato in the West : Augustine, Boethius, and Dante -- 11. From Renaissance to Romanticism : Erasmus, Descartes, and Coleridge -- 12. C. S. Lewis's Christian Platonism -- Conclusion. Plato the sub-creator.

What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith? Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of Plato, who was both Socrates's student and Aristotle's teacher. To help us understand the influence of Platonic thought on the Christian faith, Louis Markos offers careful readings of some of Plato's best-known texts and then traces the ways that his work shaped the faith of some of Christianity's most beloved theologians, including Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Dante, and C. S. Lewis. With Markos's guidance, readers can ascend to a true understanding of Plato's influence on the faith, Louis Markos offers careful readings of some of Plato's best-known texts and then traces the ways that his work shaped some of Christianity's most beloved theologians"--

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