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Title: The Light and the Glory: Children's Activity Book by Peter J. Marshall, David Manuel ISBN: 0-8007-5574-X Publisher: Revell Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (25 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: You Will Re-Read This Several Times
Comment: Marshall and Manuel have assembled a significant anount of material that has been written out of today's politically correct history. Starting with Columbus and working through to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the authors take details from newspapers, books, diaries and other materials of the times and weave a story of Christianity and the founding of the United States. They show that the two were intertwined and not meant to be separated. A drawback to this kind of writing is that it can not be taken as a serious history text, but rather as a historical overview or treatise. In other words, there is a significant amount of personal comment from the authors. I found quite a few places where the authors imagined comments or scenes about people; what they thought or did. This is unfortunate and caused me to downgrade the book slightly. However, these parts are well written (as is the whole book) and do not detract. Well worth the purchase price.
Rating: 3
Summary: An interesting, but seriously flawed book.
Comment: Peter Marshall and David Manuel have done their homework. There is no doubt about it. They have proposed a thesis - that America was discovered, explored, and founded as an explicitly Christian nation, and that God's hand can be evident in it's early history - and have defended it well. They have gone back to some interesting primary sources, which do, in fact, shed light on our nation's early history. As such, the book is a valuable read.
THIS BEING SAID, for the author's thesis to stand, one must comprehend and assume a totally Calvinistic understanding of Christian theology, AND assume that our Founding Fathers were working under similar paradigms. Such an historical point of view is difficult to defend. Some of our nation's Founders did indeed come from such a theological viewpoint. Many, however, did not. (And our two significant founding documents were penned by a Deist and an Episcopalian!) Such a point of view is also difficult, not only to those who do not profess the Christian faith, but for the enormous majority of those who do! (Catholics, Orthodox, many Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, some Baptists, etc.) If a Calvinistic viewpoint is removed from the book, the entire premise collapses.
Please don't get me wrong -- Marshall and Manuel have assembled a great deal of research, and have presented it in an interesting and entertaining fashion. The "facts" are there. It's just that I (speaking as both a committed Christian and a historian) can't buy their "interpretation" of those facts.
Rating: 5
Summary: reader review of The Light and the Glory
Comment: This marvelous book is an enormously powerful yet easy read. It is appropriate for any age level from about 8 or 9 yrs. on up. I read it about 15 years ago and it still sticks in my mind for it was the seed upon which I became a born-again Christian as opposed to a person who just believed in God. This book has never been more relevant and necessary than today. If a number of Americans ,especially the Congress and all our judges would give one day to this book, our nation would reap enormous benefits in security and financial savings and education and peace.......Parents; please read this book and make it mandatory reading in your household. You'll be planting a very good seed.
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Title: From Sea to Shining Sea by Peter Marshall, David Manuel ISBN: 0800753089 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Sounding Forth the Trumpet by Peter Marshall, David Manual, David Manuel ISBN: 0800757033 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Light and the Glory for Children: Discovering God's Plan for America from Christopher Columbus to George Washington by Peter Marshall, David Manuel, Anna Wilson-Fishel, Anna Wilson Fishel ISBN: 0800754484 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: From Sea to Shining Sea for Children: Discovering God's Plan for America in Her Half-Century of Independence 1787-1837 by Peter Marshall, David Manuel, Anna Wilson Fishel ISBN: 0800754840 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: America's Providential History by Mark A. Beliles, Stephen K. McDowell ISBN: 1887456007 Publisher: Providence Foundation Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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