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Title: Raising a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis, Stu Weber ISBN: 1-56179-716-2 Publisher: Focus on the Family Pub Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must for Every Dad With A Son
Comment: Robert Lewis has written a top-notch, easy to understand, easy to implement book to help Christian dads rear godly, masculine sons.
He defines a man as "....someone who rejects passivity, accepts responsibility, leads courageously, and expects the greater reward." His definition of ideal manhood is excellent, especially his emphasis upon "rejecting passivity."
Although he does not always lay out an exact plan for readers to follow without variation, he shares his own experiences and ideas as a suggested approach.
The book is divided into five parts: The need for a modern-day knighthood, The Knight and his ideals, The Knight and his ceremonies, the Knight and his round table (community of men), and the Knight and his legacy. Part two, "The Knight and His Ideals" is alone worth the purchase price of the book. His suggestions for cermonies that celebrate a boy's advancement into manhood are creative.
This book helped me come up with some related ideas. As a result of reading this book, I implemented a "Knights of Light" training seminar for our junior high boys (I am a pastor); I compiled info on courtesy, respecting women, etc., and we had a knighting ceremony for the guys that completed this training. Lewis has written a book that addresses a real gap in our culture; he understands masculinity, particularly Christian masculinity. Go for it, dad!
Rating: 5
Summary: EDUC 503 SJC
Comment: Lewis, Robert (1997) Raising a Modern Day Knight. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. If fathers are looking for a book to help them raise their sons into Godly men, then Raising a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis is the book for them. Lewis has written an insightful book that can help fathers shepherd their sons into manhood. Lewis provides not only suggestions but also a plan: a plan that he has implemented with his own sons. Lewis writes that fathers no longer have a definition of manhood and lack a strategy that they can use to shape their sons into men. Using knighthood as inspiration, Lewis breaks down the stages of a knight to develop a definition, a process, and a few cerimonies that form a guide for fathers and their sons. The author's vision of manhood is one that fathers should look into. Lewis states that "A real man is one who rejects passivity, accepts responsibility, leads courageously, and expects a greater reward...God's reward(60). If you are a father willing to invest time and energy in raising a son then Raising a Modern Day Knight should be on your book list.
Rating: 3
Summary: Raising boys to be men in a polically correct world
Comment: Thank you Mr. Lewis for providing us with a model to raise boys into men in a politically correct world. There are those, to be sure, who will take issue with the Lewis premise, but we have taken it to heart. In our schools, mass media and sadly even in many of our churches, there is a concerted effort to punish boys for being boys- do not play with guns, hunting is evil, and if they show any hint of testosterone dope them up with Ritalin. What have kind of harvest have we reap in the last thirty years of trying to raise gender neutral, sensitive boys, devoid of masculine violence? A raising rate of fatherlessness running up to eighty percent in some communities. But then again, who needs fathers?
But the question needs to be asked- is raising modern day knights a biblical concept? Is knighthood and Christlikeness compatible? I think so. Certainly, Jesus never condemned the soldiers role. In fact, in both the gospels and the Book of Acts, Roman centurions serve as a model of what it means to be men of faith. Also, Romans 12 speaks of the role of the state, including the police and military, as instruments of God to keep the peace.
Our boys need to learn how to be men. Raising a Modern Day Knight not the perfect model of how to train boys to be men, but it is a good model. We are using it as our church teaching our boys the four tenants of manhood promulgated by Lewis: A real man rejects passivity; a real man accepts responsibility; a real man leads courageously and finally, a real man expects the greater reward. Our boys, who can be expelled from school, if not arrested, for drawing a picture of a gun in school have learned how to safely handle and shoot rifles and shotguns, and have sliced watermelons with a saber. When these boys grow up and marry, they will be men who love, respect and protect their wives. They will provide their sons and daughters with a model of what a Christlike man looks like.
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Title: She Calls Me Daddy by Robert Wolgemuth, Gary Smalley ISBN: 1561796522 Publisher: Focus on the Family Pub Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Tender Warrior : God's Intention For A Man by Stu Weber ISBN: 1576733068 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 08 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul by John Eldredge ISBN: 0785268839 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Four Pillars of a Man's Heart : Bringing Strength Into Balance by Stu Weber ISBN: 1576734501 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 29 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Heart of a Tender Warrior: Becoming a Man of Purpose (Life Change Books) by Stu Weber ISBN: 1590520394 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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