More and more in our modern and postmodern culture the twin concepts of beauty and truth have been separated both from each other and from their individual connection to the divine source of Beauty and Truth. Even as our public schools move further and further away from their connection to the universal moral code, the world of art (both high and low) embraces an aesthetic that privileges ugliness over beauty, nihilism over form, and radical self-expression over the pursuit of higher truth. As both an effective apologist for truth-based education and as a sub-creator of his own beauty-enhancing fiction, C.S. Lewis is the ideal guide for those who would seek to restore truth and beauty to their proper place and role in our modern world. Sections one and two analyze Lewis' eleven novels, showing how Lewis counters the growing cult of the ugly and helps restore a clearer understanding of the nature of good and evil. Sections three and four turn to Lewis' nonfiction works to assess what advice Lewis can give educators at all levels who would steer their students away from chronological snobbery and values-free education toward a true re-engagement with the past. The book concludes with a commentary on Screwtape Letters that exposes what Satan's main temptation tactics have been since the 1960s and a detailed bibliographical essay of books by and about Lewis.

Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis

Literature & Fiction

Louis Markos

History & Criticism

Discover Christ through Ancient Myths! 
"God is more than a god, not less; Christ is more than Balder, not less. We must not be ashamed of the mystical radiance resting on our theology. We must not be nervous about parallels and 'pagan Christs': they ought to be there it would be a stumbling block if they weren't. We must not, in false spirituality, withhold our imaginative welcome." 
- C. S. Lewis, Myth Became Fact 
Join renowned author Dr. Louis Markos on an unparalleled adventure for the modern Christian! In the spirit of C. S. Lewis, whose own acceptance of Christ hinged on his understanding that Christ is the myth become fact, The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyesmines wisdom of eternal value from the great storehouses of Greek and Roman mythology and traces the links that bind those myths to the Bible and the Christian life. 
The Myth Made Facttakes its readers on an exploration of Greek and Roman characters, art, and stories one that spans 50 myths and sheds new light on the legends of Hercules, Orpheus, Jason, Phaedra, Oedipus, and many more! The journey through myth unfolds through six unique parts, each pointing beyond the lustful and wrathful Olympian gods to the One Holy Creator who stands, like Aslan, at the back of all our stories. 
Part I: Journeys and Origins 
Part II: Platonic Myths 
Part III: The Four Great Heroes 
Part IV: The Tragic House of Thebes 
Part V: The Tragic House of Atreus 
Part VI: Love Lost and Found 
The Myth Made Factoffers distinct insight into how the common people of pagan Greece and Rome received their myths and used them as guides to virtuous living. By doing so, Dr. Markos helps his readers receive myth in the right spirit: not as historical tales that contradict the Bible, but as testimonies to the yearnings of people who lacked clear revelation but nevertheless hungered and thirsted for Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

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

Classical Academic Press

In Ancient Voices, Louis Markos helps readers hearthe unique voices of Hesiod and Herodotus, Solon and Socrates, Periclesand Parmenides, and a host of other ancient Greeks who lived their livesand dreamed their dreams in a world that may seem foreign to us but whichhelped to shape the world in which we live.

Ancient Voices: An Insider's Look at Classical Greece

Religion & Spirituality

Stone Tower Press

The ancient world was not ancient to its inhabitants - it was a vibrant world full of ideas. Studying people from the outside affords knowledge and insight, but to transform that knowledge and insight into wisdom and discernment, we must open ourselves to seeing the world through the eyes of the people of the past. In Ancient Voices, Louis Markos helps readers hear the unique voices of Polybius and Cicero, Horace and Ovid, Seneca and Suetonius, and a host of other ancient Romans who lived their lives and dreamed their dreams in a world that may seem foreign to us but which helped to shape the world in which we live.

Ancient Voices: An Insider's Look at Ancient Rome

History

Born out of the French Revolution and its radical faith that a nation could be shaped and altered by the dreams and visions of its people, British Romantic Poetry was founded on a belief that the objects and realities of our world, whether natural or human, are not fixed in stone but can be molded and transformed by the visionary eye of the poet. This key romantic notion-that things are as they are perceived, that the external world is, in part, a projection of the internal mood of the poet-finds its fullest expression in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, and such intimate crisis poems as Wordsworth's "Intimations Ode," Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode," Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," and Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale." -_-_-_- Unlike some books written on Romanticism, which devote many pages to the poets and few pages to their poetry, the focus here is firmly on the poems themselves. The reader is thereby drawn intimately into the life of these poems. A separate bibliographical essay is provided for for each poet listing accessible biographies and critical studies of their work. -_-_-_- "The indomitable Louis Markos has done it again! Whether he is writing on the pagan classics, the Romantics, the Victorians, the Inklings, post-modernism, or modern Christian apologetics, he always cuts through the cant of contemporary fashion with the insightful incisiveness of orthodoxy. In this latest tour de force, he beholds the alluring and deceptive beauty of Romanticism through the unfailing eye of Christian Realism." * * * Joseph Pearce, Writer in Residence and Associate Professor of Literature, Ave Maria University

The Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World Like a Romantic Poet

Winged Lion Press, LLC

The writings of C.S. Lewis have touched millions of readers. This new handbook makes clear that it is not just the words and stories of C.S. Lewis. Matching one idea or aspect of Lewis's writings with each letter of the alphabet, Louis Markos employs a memorable method to demonstrate both the simplicity and the complexity of Lewis. Markos also gives those who want to know more about Lewis an overview of his life and brief guides to his books and three film productions of his works.

From A to Z to Narnia with C.S. Lewis

Lampion Press

The Dreaming Stone

It was just a small stone in the shape of an egg and a common-looking set of panpipes, but when Stacey put the stone under her pillow and Alex played on the pipes, they were magically transported back into the world of Greek mythology. Join Alex and Stacey as they ride on the back of the winged horse, Pegasus, descend with Orpheus into the dark depths of Hades, fly with the ill-fated Phaethon in the Golden Chariot of the Sun, help Perseus slay the evil Medusa, and face, alongside King Theseus, the dreaded Minotaur.

Teen & Young Adult

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