From Plato to Christ: how Platonic thought shaped the Christian faith

PART I. Plato's pre-Christian Vision

1. Socrates, the Sophists, and the Presocratics

2. Republic

3. The myths: part I

4. The myths: part II

5. Laws

6. Timaeus

PART II. Plato's Christian Legacy

7. The rising path

8. Origen's musings

9. Plato in the East : the three Gregorys

10. Plato in the West : Augustine, Boethius, and Dante

11. From Renaissance to Romanticism : Erasmus, Descartes, and Coleridge

12. C. S. Lewis's Christian Platonism

Conclusion. Plato the sub-creator.