2020 Workshop Talk | 59:16 | All Grade Levels, Art & Music
Summary
Dr. Louis Markos and his son, Alex Markos, will be discussing the recent TV series The Chosen, which offers a unique and compelling presentation of the Gospel narrative. They will provide some background and context for the show, share their favorite scenes, and talk about the implications it has for Christian art and how parents and educators can use it to bring the biblical characters to life for their students. At the end of their presentation, they will take questions from the live audience about the show.
Speaker
Dr . Louis Markos holds a BA in English and history from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan . He is a professor of English and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University, where he teaches courses on British Romantic and Victorian Poetry and Prose, the Classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and Art and Film . Dr . Markos holds the Robert H . Ray Chair in Humanities and lectures on ancient Greece and Rome, the early church and Middle Ages, the Renaissance and romanticism for HBU’s Honors College . He is the author of eighteen books, including From Achilles to Christ, On the Shoulders of Hobbits, Literature: A Student’s Guide, CSL: An Apologist for Education, three Canon Press Worldview Guides to the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, & two children’s novels, The Dreaming Stone and In the Shadow of Troy, in which his kids become part of Greek mythology and the Iliad and Odyssey. His son Alex teaches Latin at the Geneva School in Boerne, TX.
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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