Articles tagged Book Review
Echoing in Celebration with the Handiwork of God
by Kate
Monday, 06 February, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
Monday, 06 February, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
A Book Review of James Nickel's Mathematics: Is God Silent?
Mathematics: Is God Silent? is an investigation into the history and nature of mathematics, as well as an extensive study of the question of its ultimate source—that which gives mathematics all its meaning...
Book Review: Newton by Mitch Stokes
by Jennifer
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
If you mention Isaac Newton to an acquaintance, most of them will see an instant mental cartoon of a long-haired man in knee breeches who shouts “Aha, gravity!” when the famous apple hits his forehead. Few people give him due credit for his other revolutionary ideas in...
So That a Man Can Stand Up: Reasons to Read a Classic Through Reflections on Johnny Tremain
by Kate
Monday, 31 October, 2011
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 31 October, 2011
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
(1 Corinthians 10:13, NIV).
What makes...
Book Review: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
Children are dangerous. Children with imaginations are even more so. We cannot have children growing up to be anything more than resources for our industrial, consumer-driven culture. With a cultivated imagination children will become free; with freedom, they may grow...
Book Review: How to Write a Sentence
I never thought I would read a book entitled How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One; even less did I think I would enjoy one. Yet, here I am and I can do no other.
Stanley Fish writes a book in which he introduces the sentence as a work of art. Not only does he...