“Don’t expect this kind of thing to decrease. The bullying probably won’t go away because the inward character of the bullies won’t be touched. Our culture worships the god of “education” as the savior for all ills, but the ill of the human heart is moral and spiritual. This doesn’t mean that education has no role to play. Of course it is central and the life of the mind is crucial to life in Christ. But as long as Christians don’t reject and abandon this kind of “education” then we will continue to get more of it. Truth be told, public schools exist because Christians stay in them. Our allegiance is to Jesus and his teachings on how we ought to educate our children, and that means that it must be an explicitly Christian education, where Jesus Christ is front, center, beginning and end of every subject area.”

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This book is a beautiful whirlwind of history, theology, philosophy of education and more. Buy this book because you need to read about the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes of Malta and what their victory in the siege of Malta against the Ottoman Turks can teach us today. Buy it because what other book discusses the Iliad of Homer, The importance of J. Gresham Machen, the impact of Irish Monks on civilization, the religious aspects of the War for Independence and the Civil War with such knowledge and Christian perspective?

This book did several things for me. First, it helped shape how I look at history. As a Christian with a love for history and theology, I am not blind to a theological and Christian exploration of the past, and I am conscious of Christian Worldview implications for history…but Ben House helps mold and shape that understanding like a great teacher should. The second, and perhaps the best thing this book did (and I believe the impact that House would most want), it made me buy a bunch of books. Seriously, if you don’t want to buy 10 new books and expand your Amazon wish list by 2 pages, do not read this book. House reviews books, extols such thinkers as Christopher Dawson, R.J. Rushdoony, James Jordan, Francis Schaeffer, Gary DeMar and many, many, many more.

If you are at all interested in history, theology, worldview, literature, etc…you need to get this book. It is a page turner full of stories that mold and shape the mind of the reader while teaching him how to read the inevitable stack of books he/she will purchase after reading this one.   

“We live in an age of tremendous Bible ignorance. Even conservative seminaries do not teach much of the Bible; they teach everything else, but assume that the men will learn the Bible on their own. Pastors are told that laymen are stupid, and cannot be taught much of the Bible. They are told to give out “three point” sermons. This must not continue.

The goal of total Bible saturation is that our common sense is reshaped. This takes time. It probably takes a generation. Because we are estranged from the Biblical outlook, much of the Bible seems strange to us. The Bible comes to us as “formal language.” That is, it is “high language” that directly challenges our outlook on reality. We must learn it and live with it until what the Bible says becomes our common sense, what we instinctively operate with day by day.”

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“The latter nurtures the soul, the other only drills a sense organ or muscle. The one has a mechanical end, the other a moral purpose.”