An Evangelical block - buster!

And in Christian Theology!

"As an Evangelical, I do not offer prayers to the saints; I have, however..."

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Houston Baptist University Professor Louis Markos:

"Why We Still Need Plato: A Healthy Corrective"


Random snippets adapted from this original source:


The City Spring 2010. This journal defines itself on the cover as A Publication of Houston Baptist University. "and visit us online at CIVITATE.ORG ."


"Along with a growing number of my fellow evangelicals, I have learned to qualify the Reformation cry of sola scriptura by asserting the foundational authority of the ecumenical councils that formed the creeds.

"I have learned too to drink deeply at the patristic well: not raising Sacred Tradition to the same level as the Bible, but according a greater weight of authority to the sermons and treatises of Church Fathers from Irenaeus to Athanasius to Chrysostom to Augustine.

"Though it is probably too early to speak of an official Protestant Resourcement, I have been cheered by the enthusiasm with which evangelical colleges, presses, and scholars have reconnected with our ancient Christian heritage.

"And that reconnection has been taking place as well in the more theologically orthodox sectors of the mainline..."


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"As an Evangelical, I do not offer prayers to the saints; I have, however, been able (with a little help from Plato) to get myself past the inbred Protestant resistance to the belief that was held strongly by most of the early and medieval Church Fathers: namely, that some Christians, through grace as well as merit, draw closer to God and, by so doing, gain a deeper understanding of the Good, the True, and / or the Beautiful ..."

"Louis Markos, (www.Loumarkos.com) Professor in English at Houston Baptist University etc... "