Robert L. Wilken, in First Things (Dec. 1990), Inst. on Religion and Public Life, 156 Fifth Ave., ~te. 400, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Virtuous deeds "implant in those who pire, the use of written narratives of noble search them out a zeal and yearning that lives to teach virtue was well-established, leads to imitation," declared Plutarch (A.D. notes Wilken, a University of Virginia his- 46-120), whose Parallel Lives of noble torian. "Yet Christian hagiography. . . does Greeks and Romans...