Okay, welcome. And welcome to you, my friend, my dear old friend, Dr. Louis Marcos. Can I call you Doc since we're friends?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. You, in some ways, sum up to me why I do this. Because I've always said that the pursuit of truth should be fun

and we always aim for that and I think because you know I and you believe that there is such a thing

as truth,

it can be fun to look for it.

We're not afraid that we're gonna find that at the bottom,

there's no truth and there's no meaning in the universe.

But you in some ways typify that.

You're kind of like the college professor

that I think everybody wishes they had, certainly that I wish I had.

So there's a lot to talk to you about. Today, I want to talk to you about your book. I mean,

you've talked about this subject a lot over the years, but finally you wrote a book about it,

and it's called From Plato to Christ,

how platonic thought shaped the Christian faith. So the first question may be rather obvious.

What led you to put these ideas into a book?

Thanks for having me on, Eric.

It's great to be back in New York City.

I grew up in New Jersey, so I grew up close going into... I actually forgot that. Can you imagine? I know. Back in the 70s when New York was just terrible. We would sneak in here, we'd see a show, and we'd go right back home before it got dark. It was wonderful. We had this little ritual whenever we went through the tunnel.

Whenever we got through the tunnel,

whenever we got to the New York side, we would start coughing like we couldn't breathe, which is probably what the New Yorkers think about in New Jersey. But anyway, now I'm in Houston, Texas. But there's kind of two reasons why I wrote the book. The first reason is back in, I think it was 2007, I published a book called From Achilles to Christ, why Christians should read the pagan classics.

From Achilles to Christ, Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics.

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