99c as of 1/1/15:
https://vyrso.com/product/39765/come-let-us-reason-new-essays-in-christian-apologetics
Title: Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics
Thanks. I picked this up.
Yup, I picked that up the other day. There are quite a number of good books on 99-cent special right now (click on "see all" next to Top Deals on the Vyrso home page to see them, or click this link). Here are some others I got:
The Love of Wisdom: A Christian Introduction to Philosophy
Taking Christian Moral Thought Seriously
The Case for Classical Christian Education (probably won't read this one in its entirety, as I don't have kids and don't really have a reason to abandon hope in the public school system; I have family members who work in the latter and I want to support them; there are still some really terrific teachers who LOVE their work and do an amazing job and are feeling abandoned by parents and Christians who throw in the towel or, worse, complain about the teachers; but I know that Classical Christian Ed is a big movement and I want to be able to understand the arguments for it from those who defend it, even though I might take a different position).
Thanks Allen & Rosie. Bought 2 of the 3 suggested. Probably oversimplistic, but if I was raising a child Christian education equals reading and learning to do what the Bible says. Took decades to unlearn doing things my way.[:(]
if I was raising a child Christian education equals reading and learning to do what the Bible says.
There's lots of that education in church and home already, and I certainly would want my child to learn those things if I had one. But I wouldn't need their school to also teach that. The Bible doesn't teach mathematics, reading, critical reasoning, US and World history, biology, chemistry, physics, etc. I know that Christian classical schools do teach a lot of those things too (along with ancient skills like Latin and Greek and rhetoric and such which are helpful in understanding the Bible), but many of the academic disciplines do not need to have a "biblical" twist applied to them to make them very beautiful and truthful and good and relevant and useful for living in the world we live in. And sometimes, just sometimes, the biblical twist that is added in some places results in a certain inability to appreciate the good in general revelation. It is replaced with a fear of anything secular. I wouldn't want my child to grow up wanting to stay holed up in a Christian enclave for his whole life to stay safe from bad ideas. "Prepare your child for the road, not the road for your child," as my pastor Earl Palmer used to say often. And while the secular schooling might teach the kids a lot of "fairy tales" which some Christians wouldn't want their kids learning, G.K. Chesterton has this to say about fairy tales:
“[Children] are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it—because it is a fact. Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”
Thanks for pointing these out. Somehow I'm not in the habit of checking those Vyrso deals unless they are highlighted here.
