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

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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English Professor at Houston Baptist University, Louis Markos, returns for a second conversation with Socrates in the City’s Eric Metaxas. For this entertaining Studio conversation, the duo illustrate how ancient myths point to Christ, discussing C.S. Lewis, Pandora’s Box, Genesis, and much else along the way.

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0:00.0	Welcome back.
0:03.2	I have the privilege right now of talking to a very dear old friend.
0:08.4	My goodness, Dr. Louis Marcos of Houston Christian University here in New York.
0:15.2	Thank you for being with us.
0:16.5	It's good to be here.
0:17.3	And Eric, I want to start by explaining why it is I'm wearing this white tux.
0:21.1	It's because I heard that you have a lot of, you know, big people watching your show. Huge. Yeah, and now that Daniel Craig has stepped down. I'm, you know, auditioning to be the next James Bond. I just want you to know that. You know what? Here's a weird thing. Here's a weird thing. This is the, everything leads to everything. one of the folks that I have interviewed at, it was a Socrates in the city event in Oxford.
0:43.9	Oh, okay.
0:44.3	It was the Oxford conversations.
0:47.1	It's Dr. Michael Ward.
0:49.1	You familiar with him?
0:49.7	He's now father.
0:50.8	Father Michael Ward.
0:52.1	Okay.
0:52.9	He has an actual connection to the 007. Yes, he 007. The world is not enough. He was in a James Bond film. He did. So you should talk to him. He handed the glasses to James Bond. Right, right. It's a great scene. I think we're done here. I want to talk to you today. You and I were just like bursting with enthusiasm over ideas.
1:12.5	It's why I love you and love talking to you because it's fun to talk about ideas and truth and
1:17.1	goodness and beauty, all of which typically leads us to C.S. Lewis one way or the other.
1:23.9	So you wrote a book, Lewis is not in the title, but it immediately makes me think of
1:30.0	C.S. Lewis, and the title of the book is The Myth Made Fact.
1:36.3	Beautiful title.
1:37.3	I'm amazed nobody ever used it before.
1:39.3	The Myth Made Fact.
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