From Plato to Christ

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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’ guidance, readers can ascend to a true understanding of Plato’s influence on the faith.

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From Plato to Christ

In his preface, Louis Markos suggests that the works of Plato can be most profitably read on two simultaneous levels. One, as works of genius in their own right. Two, as inspired writings used by the God of the Bible to prepare the ancient world for Christ’s coming. We should not forget that the finest thinkers of the past held such a view of Plato and fellow proto-Christians.

The very reason that Aristotle and Virgil could serve as forerunners and guides to Aquinas and Dante was because the latter pair understood that their pagan mentors had access to a wisdom that transcended time and place. Though they believed that man was fallen both in body and in mind, they also believed that man was created in God’s image and still retained the mark of his Creator. Our reason, conscience, and powers of observation were corrupted by the fall. But they still operated and could afford us limited knowledge of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.

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