PING! :)
A link to the article
https://www.memoriapress.com/articles/why-christians-should-read-pagan-classics-reason-1/
The included link is to the picture
Fascinating concept. Thanks for posting.
Imagine what the world would be like if had never lost any books, papers, drawings, ancestral documents, census data, church records, etc.
I have a love hate relationship with articles like this.
I think it’s awesome to teach people about classical architecture, and teach them to love it. I love it too. How can you not?!
But the idea that modern architecture (I assume they would include people like Philip Johnson in this category) is soulless and “ignores truth” is utter rubbish. I don’t think encouraging people to hate whatever seems to be modern is a service to civilization, at all.
The ghost of Chesterton (”all downhill one the dirty Impressionists boogeymen came on the scene”) and Francis (”I hate everything”) Schaeffer loom large in Christendom.
I’ve read many of the pagan classics over the last 60 years. Homer, Tacitus, Virgil, Herodotus and several more. Great reads! Read them again not long ago.
I believe many of the early Christian authors were well versed in these books.
Perhaps the author should be telling non-Christians to read the Bible.