All tagged Homer

In Medias Res

We are characters in a story, we are not the author. We are placed in the plot and given roles. We enter stage right or stage left and are called upon to recite our lines and act.

Hospitality, Gifts and Pagan Literature

The fact is hospitality is a central theme to the scriptures, particularly in the ways that it points to the incarnation and God's desire to once again dwell with man as he did with Adam in the garden. In The Odyssey modern Christians are shamed by the fact that even pagan cultures understood this important facet of culture that most of us are so slow to apprehend.

Only the Trinity Will Work

"Deep Comedy," according to Leithart, is something that can only be achieved in and through the Christian worldview. What is "deep comedy?" it is the world that the Bible says that we inhabit. The Bible, through the communication of the Trinitarian God, teaches that creation (the world we inhabit) need not be a perpetually decaying world.