This book is designed for history teachers in Christian education, homeschoolers, pastors, and anyone engaged in the topic of how a Christian perspective is useful to understanding history. It includes studies of historical events, historians, and reviews of history books. It includes ideas for classroom implementation of Christian worldview thinking. It especially emphasizes classical Christian education and Reformed theology. Such thinkers as Augustine, Eusebius, Christopher Dawson, R. J. Rushdoony, Gregg Singer, and Otto Scott are examined in this work. The Christian impact on Western Civilization and the influence of Christianity on American history are both amply discussed. It also shows connections between history and literature and history and theology.
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Ben House has written an anthology about history, historians, and culture. ...an admixture of his own distinctly biblical perspective and engaging, dry, Southern wit... It is hard to set down once you've tasted it. Patch Blakey Executive Director, Association of Classical & Christian Schools --Back cover of the book
There are only a certain few books that actually have the power to ruin a reader. ...[Ben House's] book, must necessarily take its place among them. George Grant President, King's Meadow Study Center --Foreword to the book
There are only a certain few books that actually have the power to ruin a reader. ...[Ben House's] book, must necessarily take its place among them. George Grant President, King's Meadow Study Center --Foreword to the book
About the Author
Ben House, B.A., M. Ed., is an administrator and teacher at Veritas Academy and an elder at Grace Covenant Church in Texarkana, Arkansas. He has thirty years experience as a history and literature teacher. He and his wife, Stephanie, have four children, Nicholas, TaraJane, Nathaniel, and Caroline. Ben has written essays and book reviews for various publications and web-postings, including recent articles for Faith for All of Life (published by Chalcedon Foundation) and Christian Culture (published by the Center for Cultural Leadership). He has spoken at various conferences on topics related to history, literature, and Christian education. He is an unrestrained book buyer and reader. Conservative in politics, Reformed in theology, and Southern in literary and musical tastes, Ben is, nevertheless, quite eclectic in reading interests and selections of historical topics and perspectives.
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Not Just for Teachers,
This review is from: Punic Wars & Culture Wars: Christian Essays on History and Teaching (Hardcover)
Punic Wars and Culture Wars is not just for history teachers or professors. Ben House is gifted in articulating history as a story with wit, humor, and facts. An enjoyable read for every individual. Ben is conversational and opens the eyes to a new view of history. Ben has written a work that displays the significance of history on our past, present, and future. Although my career is not teaching history, I now understand that we are all history teachers in an aspect.
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an enjoyable and educational book,
This review is from: Punic Wars & Culture Wars: Christian Essays on History and Teaching (Hardcover)
Here is a volume for teachers and students of history. The author, a history teacher in a Christian school, writes from a perspective that history is meaningful and relevant.In twenty-six informative essays, House spans the scope of history from the Greek era into the twentieth century through a number of events (several of which have been long forgotten under the dust of time). He consistently shows the abiding relevance of history and applications from history for today. Teachers can learn much about integrating Christian thinking into this subject. Students can profit by learning about the events and people he covers. This volume is well-written in a very personable style. It is an enjoyable and educational work.
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Pass The Bottle...er...Book,
This review is from: Punic Wars & Culture Wars: Christian Essays on History and Teaching (Hardcover)
Ben has a love for history and, after reading this book, you will too....unless of course you don't like to read period. He gives us essays on history, historians and culture...all written with his usual sense of humor. I think his "Annotated Bibliography" is worth the price of the entire book - there he gives comments on each author/historian and a synopsis of their books. Great! Mr House will make you laugh but he will also give you, I believe, a love for reading - even those books I used to think were so dry - history (which I now confess, I love). As an earlier reviewer of this book (written on the back of the book) has said: "Ben House is an experienced connoisseur who brings forth an abundance of vintage samplings from a well-stocked cellar. Like choice wine, the book is hard to set down once you tasted it." I agree! Pass me another bottle, please.
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