Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.
Professor; William Suttles Chair
Ph.D., Emory University
phone: 404-413-6122
e-mail: lruprecht(at)gsu.du
Dr. Ruprecht is an affiliate faculty member with the Hellenic Studies Center and the Center for Collaborative Scholarship in the Humanities. He is also a research fellow of the Vatican Library Secret Archives and a staff writer for "Religion Dispatches."
Area of Interest:
Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Religion and Culture, Comparative Religious Ethics, History of Christianity, Tragedy
Selected Publications:
Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision: Against the Modern Failure of Nerve, (Continuum, 1994)
Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism and the Myth of Decadence (SUNY, 1996)
Symposia: Plato, the Erotic and Moral Value, (SUNY, 1999)
Was Greek Thought Religious? On the Use and Abuse of Hellenism, From Rome to Romanticism, (Palgrave, 2002)
God Gardened East: A Gardener's Meditation on the Dynamics of Genesis, Cascade Books (January 2008).
This Tragic Gospel: How John Corrupted the Heart of Christianity, (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008)
"A Shrine to the Muses: The Modern Public Art Museum, Spiritual Space for an Irreligious Age" (in progress)
"Winckelmann's Secret History: the Birth of Art History and the Vatican's First Profane Museum" (currently under review)
