Louis A. Markos, Ph.D
If you need a professional, high-resolution digital picture of me for advertising or promotion, please view the following gallery. If you use one of these pictures, I just ask that you please give credit to the Houston Baptist University photographer who took the pictures, Michael Tims. Thank you. Fall 2010 Office Hours Office Hours: MW 1:30-4, 5:15-6 TTh 12:30-2, 5:30-6 Department of English
SEE BELOW FOR CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND FOR MY SPEECHES FOR THE 2010-11 ACADEMIC YEAR
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 five new books slated for publication: Winged Lion Press will be publishing my Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World like a Romantic Poet in the summer of 2010, Crossway Books will be publishing my Apologetics for the 21st Century in October of 2010, and Biblica will publish Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis in the Fall of 2010. Moody Press will publish On the Shoulders of Hobbits: What Tolkien can Teach us Today in the Fall of 2011 and Crossway will publish A Christian Guide to the Study of Literature in 2011. If you go to this link and scroll down, you will find a list of all my books that are available for purchase or preorder through amazon.com: 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 currently planned for 2010-20011 Academic Year: 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. On Sept 13, Sept 27, and Oct 20 from 11am-noon, I will be giving a series of three lectures on C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity in HBU's Dunham Theater. On September 24-25, I will be the keynote speaker for The Forum on Christianity and the Liberal Arts, a conference held at the University of Mobile in Mobile, AL. My topic will be "The Dangers of a Values-Free Education" and will be taken from my new book, Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (due out from Biblica Publishing in October of 2010). On the evening of October 1, I will give a speech on C. S. Lewis's views on Friendship (from the Four Loves) for Holy Trinity Anglican Church in The Heights of Houston (211 Byrne St.). On Friday, Oct 15 at 7:30, a condensed version of The Oresteia of Aeschylus will be performed in the Dunham Theater on the campus of Houston Baptist University by an acting troupe from Greece. I was responsible for editing and revising the English translation of the script and will speak before the performance on the background and continuing relevance of the play. (Though plans are not yet fully set, there is a good chance I will fly to Mexico City later in October to speak on Greek Tragedy and the Oresteia for Mexican television and before live audiences of students, faculty, and others.) Updated 8/25/2010
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