From Plato to Christ

How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith

De: Louis Markos

Narrado por: Al Kessel

What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith?

Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of Plato, who was both Socrates's student and Aristotle's teacher.

To help us understand the influence of Platonic thought on the Christian faith, Louis Markos offers careful readings of some of Plato's best-known texts and then traces the ways that his work shaped the faith of some of Christianity's most beloved theologians, including Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Dante, and C.S. Lewis.

With Markos's guidance, listeners can ascend to a true understanding of Plato's influence on the faith.

©2020 Louis A. Markos (P)2022 Tantor

Fantastic

He gets a few claims wrong about Plato but 95% of it is fantastic. Great primer to read more.

Wow! This book is amazing!

Louis Markos is a gem!

Not only does Markos have the intellectual chops to explain Plato’s worldview (from original sources) as it correlates with the progression of many, many Christian scholars through the centuries, from Paul of Tarsus through C S Lewis, he does so with grace and aplomb!

Excellent references - excellent analysis. Thank you, Dr. Markos, in particular, for including Erasmus’ “Education of a Christian Prince”. Every student required to read “the Prince” should also hear Erasmus’ brilliant response to Machiavelli!

His writing is very thoughtful and entertaining, and the scholarship is amazing! Clearly, there was a loving hand in the copious and thorough historical research and analysis done for this one.

Beautiful flow and very engaging presentation, over all. Thank you, Dr. Markos!

GE

The narration is awful. I can’t tell if it’s a real person or a computer. Pretty sure it’s a computer.

Please stop allowing or encouraging AI book reading.
I’m sure it’s much better read than what I’ve experienced thus far with the books that are “included “ with my Audible membership.

Very well done overall

The book itself is from a Christian perspective, which Markos succeeds in representing faithfully. Therefore, his views on Plato should be taken as such; i.e., if you don't like that, you don't have to read it.

While the performance was decent overall, he had something of a pedantic tone, over-articulating the t in Plato consistently, and mispronunced a number of uncommon words and names.

That being said, this was a very well-conceived and executed work.

An Excellent Read

I am not a philosopher but a church musician. I have pondered the Bible in depth and have been fascinated by Plato’s writings and thought over many years. This book dealt with both subjects very well, both in the ways Biblical theology and Platonic philosophy agreed and were different. I appreciated the author showing how the Bible, Christian philosophers, and apologists through the centuries have taken notice of Plato’s amazing insight and understanding. I have continued to study the subject. This is an excellent book to begin studying both the Biblical, historical and philosophical connections of Plato’s thought. The author has written in a way that is easy to understand. I recommend this book.

preachy disappointing

started strong discussing with clarity Plato but flipped to sermonizing. I was looking for history and philosophy. not personal opinions. no real discussion of Aristotle nor stoics.

A base level primer poorly done

Plato made boring in a condescending style featuring sections of exegesis that border on the ridiculous.

this book is anti-intellectual filth

literally impossible to sit through. you cannot argue your faith from a starting point that presupposes your faith is reality. connecting a philosopher who's influences on christianity are obvious and predate christianity by more than 500 years by saying he was divinely inspired by god to be wrong is stupid.

Disappointing

I was really looking forward to listening to this audiobook but I couldn't finish it. This is a textbook example of confirmation bias. The author's own statements/beliefs are poorly reasoned. This author does not appear qualified to do, or write about, philosophy.