2019 Workshop Talk | 57:02 | All Grade Levels, Culture & Faith, History
Summary
Marcion, the founder of one of the oldest Christian heresies, taught that the God of the Old Testament and of the New Testament are two different Gods. Believing the former to be an angry, hate-filled deity, Marcion tried to eliminate the Old Testament and base Christianity on the loving message of the Gospels . His heresy is still with us today with new atheists like Richard Dawkins excoriating the Old Testament God and a growing generation of young people who consider themselves more tolerant and moral than God. But Marcion’s arguments were decisively answered 1800 years ago by Tertullian.
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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