Louis A. Markos, Ph.D
Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities Scholar in Residence
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Starting this Fall, I will be ushering HBU's Honors Students through a year long Great Books Curriculum that begins with Ancient Greece and continues through Rome and the Middle Ages. I have had two new books accepted for publication. Crossway Books will be publishing my Apologetics for the 21st Century in October of 2010; Zossima Press will be publishing my Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World like a Romantic Poet in late 2009 or early 2010. I have also signed contracts with Moody Press to publish On the Shoulders of Hobbits: What Tolkien can Teach us Today, Paternoster Press to publish Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis, and Crossway again to publish A Christian Guide to the Study of Literature. To hear me give a speech (audio only) on G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy for Chesterton House at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), click here: http://www.chestertonhouse.org/static/audio/markos/markos.mp3 I have also given a number of lectures on the HBU campus that can now be viewed (in video) on youtube. Here are three links: To hear me give an introduction to C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4pIFA7LNU To hear me discuss Books I and II of Mere Christianity, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx0ETGScTPY&feature=channel_page To hear me discuss Book III of Mere Christianity, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w05Q9xT_MM To hear me discuss Book IV of Mere Christianity, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6jQyTmykSE To hear me give a speech entitled “Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics,” click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8caMT6wt_1E It is with great excitement that I announce the publication of two books: From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics (InterVarsity Press) In this book, I explore how the faith and discernment of both secular and Christian readers can be strengthened and enhanced by a vigorous interaction with the central literary masterpieces of the ancient world: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Greek Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and Virgil's great Roman epic, the Aeneid. These timeless classics will be brought alive both as literary works possessing their own separate integrity within the context of the cultures and the poets that produced them and as "proto-Christian" works of almost prophetic power that point the way toward Christ and that glimmer with a faint but True Light. Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age (Sapientia Press) In this book, I offer a close reading of all the major poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, together with the work of six Victorian "sages": Matthew Arnold, T. H. Huxley, Cardinal Newman, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, and John Ruskin. My central thesis is that the Victorians were the first people to face directly the challenges, confusions, and upheavals of the modern world. It is their struggles--especially their struggles with faith, science, consumerism, and progress--that are most like our own, and it is therefore their solutions that most demand our attention. Read more information on From Achilles to Christ and to order online. Read more information on Pressing Forward and to order online.
Both books may also be ordered at Amazon.com. Indeed, if you order both books together from Amazon, you will receive free shipping (and probably a good discount as well). Go to amazon.com and type "Louis Markos" into the search engine. The first book on the list should be From Achilles to Christ; the third book on the list should be Pressing Forward. My book, Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World (Broadman & Holman, 2003) should appear second on the list.
Read my essay titled Why I Do Not Use Gender-Neutral Language. The essay is composed of three parts: 1) a survey of how strong and ubiquitious the gender-neutral agenda has become; 2) an argument as to why the Bible (and hymns, prayers, creeds, etc.) should not be translated in accordance with the “rules" of "non-sexist" usage; 3) an argument as to why the gender-neutral trend in general is a negative and even potentially harmful one. My 12-lecture series, The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis is available from The Teaching Company at www.teach12.com For more information on this series, see Lecture Series section. This Spring, my home Bible Study (which meets on Thursdays from 8:15pm-9:30pm) is going through The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis. All are invited to attend, no matter their denomination or religious belief. If you live in Houston and would like to attend, please contact me for directions.
Speeches for the 2009-20010 Academic Year:
On Wednesday, July 29 at On Sunday, September 6 at 11am, I will give the sermon at College Park Baptist Church in Houston. My sermon will be based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. On Wednesday, September 9, I will give a luncheon address in On Saturday, September 12, I will give a talk on G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy for Chesterton House: Center for Christian Studies at Cornell University in On September 14 and 30 and October 19 at On Monday, September 14 at noon, I will give a talk on Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics for a brown bag lunch held in the Art Gallery of HBU. On Wednesdays September 16 and 23, at On Friday, October 2 at 6:30, the Greek tragedy The Trojan Women will be performed on the HBU campus. I will deliver an address before the performance on Greek Tragedy in general and The Trojan Women in particular. Earlier on Friday, October 2, I will deliver a plenary address for the Conference of Christianity and Literature, which will be sponsored by the Honors College and held on the HBU campus. My topic will be "The Aesthetics of Incarnation: A Christian Response to Postmodernism." On Wednesday, Oct 21, from 12 to 1pm, I will give a talk titled The Heirs of Athens in Washington, DC. My talk will be sponsored by the Congressional Hellenic Caucus, The National Hellenic Society, Odyssey Magazine, and The American Hellenic Institute Foundation. The talk will likely be filmed by CSPAN. The talk is free and open to the public and will include a reception with Greek food. It will be held at 402 Cannon House Office Building, located at On Tuesday, October 27, I will give a dinner lecture for Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney titled Gods and Heroes: How It All Began. This is a private function. On the weekend of Oct 30-Nov 1, I will lead a breakout session and serve on a panel discussion for the a C. S. Lewis Conference sponsored by the C. S. Lewis Foundation and held at Camp Allen in Navasota, TX. The topic of my talk will be: C. S. Lewis and the Four Loves: Apologist for Friendship. On Friday, Nov 6, from 7:30-9pm, I will give a speech for Chuck Colson's Breakpoint Worldview Training Classes at West Houston Church of Christ. My topic is titled C. S. Lewis for the 21st Century and will focus on the argument by desire and the argument that Christ was the myth made fact. On Sundays, January 10, 17, 24 from On Mondays, January 25, Feb 1, and Feb 8 from 6-8pm, I will conduct a three-week class for HBU's College of Continuing Studies on the topic of Mere Christianity. To sign up for the class, please follow this link: www.HBUforLIFE.org/CSLewis On Wednesday, Feburary 17-March 3, from 7-9pm, I will be teaching a 3-part class for The Rice School of Continuing Studies. The class is titled On the Road with Dante and the three sessions will take students on a tour of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. You need to sign up for this class with Rice. On Monday, March 8 and Monday, April 12 at 7pm, I will give a two-lecture series on Mere Christianity for Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston. On Saturday, March 13, I will retell the story of the Odyssey for Houston's University of Pennsylvania alumni group. This is a private function. On Wednesday, March 24 at 7pm, I will give a talk titled "The Lure of Sicily" for the Italian Cultural and Community Center in Houston. On Friday-Saturday, March 19-20, I will be a plenary speaker for a conference on C. S. Lewis and Apologetics held at a church near Tampa, FL. More information to come soon. On Thursday, August 19 at 6:30pm, I will give a talk titled "What Price Knowledge: On the Trail of the Byronic Hero" for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The talk is free and open to the public and is part of the Artful Thursday program. Updated 1/27/2010
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