Today’s Christians Can Learn from Yesterday’s Pagans

Around 650 years ago, the grandfather of English poetry wrote a poem about the fall of Troy. Unlike Homer and Virgil, his ancient predecessors on the subject, Geoffrey Chaucer chose to pen a romance. As befits a tragedy, his hero, Troilus, dies in battle, abandoned by his lover, Criseyde. What follows is strange. Troilus’s soul Read more... The post Today’s Christians Can Learn from Yesterday’s Pagans appeared first on Christianity Today.