Teaching and Learning America's Christian History: The Principle Approach
Overview
Designed as the basic study guide for The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America: Christian Self-government, this volume presents the Principle Approach—America’s historic method of biblical reasoning that puts God at the heart of every subject in the curriculum. The principles of our liberty concern both the individual and the nation, and can be taught to the youngest child in home and school.
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- Foreword by Dr. Mark Fakkema
- Illustrations, charts, and maps
- Bibliographical references and indexes
Top Highlights
“One hundred years ago we took education out of the Christian home where it had raised up men and women who were God-fearing, Christ-honoring, Bible-loving people. People who were willing to count the cost of Christian liberty. Yielding to the arguments of secularism in the 1830’s, 40’s and 50’s, we permitted our churches to relinquish their leadership of Christian education. In making this change into the government sponsored schools, we closed our Bible as the educational and political textbook, and we shifted our level of education from the building of individual Christian character to the building of a group character, conformable to society. As we shifted from a God-centered republic to a man-centered democracy—we began to flounder.” (Pages xii–xiii)
“The most explicit summary of the founding fathers’ conception of property is found in the writings of James Madison* educated as a theologian, but used of God to direct the writing of the Constitution. Madison indicates the external and internal meaning of property. He lists as external ‘property, land, merchandise, or money.’ As that more important property, the internal, he lists man’s property ‘in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them.… He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties, and the free choice of the objects on which to employ them.… Conscience is the most sacred of all property.’” (Page 228)
“Human knowledge and human reason are not able to provide the insight and wisdom needed. Unless one understands the Christian history of this nation and the Christian Principles of our form of government, one is not equipped to deal with today’s challenge to the freedom of mankind.” (Page xvii)
- Title: Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History: The Principle Approach
- Authors: Rosalie June Slater and Verna M. Hall
- Publisher: The Foundation for American Christian Education
- Publication Date: 1975
- Pages: 400