TY - BOOK AU - Markos,Louis TI - From Plato to Christ: how Platonic thought shaped the Christian faith SN - 9780830853052 AV - BR100 .M276 2021 U1 - 230.01 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Downers Grove, Illinois PB - IVP Academic, and imprint of InterVarsity Press KW - Plato KW - Christianity KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - Theology KW - Christianisme KW - Philosophie KW - Histoire KW - Théologie KW - theology KW - aat KW - Religious KW - bisacsh KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - RELIGION KW - fast KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of Plato. 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 some of Christianity's most beloved theologians"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2706499 ER -