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Resource Reviews Phyllis Fox Point Loma Nazarene University Volume 50 | Issue 2 Article 9 2007 Resource Reviews Phyllis Fox Point Loma Nazarene University The Christian Librarian is the official publication of the Association of Christian Librarians (ACL). To learn more about ACL and its products and services please visit http://www.acl.org/ Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/tcl Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Fox, Phyllis (2007) "Resource Reviews," The Christian Librarian: Vol. 50 : Iss. 2 , Article 9. Available at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/tcl/vol50/iss2/9 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Christian Librarian by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Resource Reviews Compiled by Phyllis Fox Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C. S. Upgrade: 10 Secrets to the Best Education Review Editor Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human for Your Child, by Kevin Swanson. Nashville: Point Loma Nazarene , by Donald T. Williams. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006. 211pp. $14.99. University Condition San Diego, CA Broadman & Holman, 2006. 212 pps. $14.99 ISBN 0805440305. Reviewed by John E. Shaffett, Director of Library Reviewed by John E. Shaffett, Director of Library Services, Baptist College of Florida, Graceville, FL. Services, Baptist College of Florida, Graceville, FL. Donald T. Williams is the director of the School Kevin Swanson serves fifteen thousand of Arts & Sciences at Toccoa Falls College in families in the Rocky Mountain region as Georgia. He wrote Mere Humanity to answer the executive director of Christian Home two basic questions- What is man? What is Educators of Colorado. He has degrees in the purpose of this life on earth? I thought mechanical engineering and ministry, and of the book of Ecclesiastes while reading it. serves as pastor of Reformation Church in He examines the doctrine of humanity as set Castle Rock, Colorado. Kevin and his wife forth in the writings of Chesterton, Lewis, and homeschool their five children. Tolkien. The book is intended for parents who are In addition, it is a response to naturalistic interested in providing the best education materialism or reductionism. It seeks to show possible for their children. Kevin describes that humans cannot be adequately described ten principles for providing our children in purely materialistic terms. The book also with a successful education: character, one- illustrates the danger of departing from a belief on-one instruction, protection, individuality, in a sovereign and personal creator and his rooted in relationships, emphasizing the basics, moral law. life integration, maintaining the honor and mystique of learning, the right foundation, Mere Humanity includes selections of sequential processing. These principles are Williams’ original poetry and an appendix that based on biblical teaching and scientific discusses the relationship between Christianity research. and literature. Williams shows the positive contributions that literature can make to the Upgrade is well written, interesting, and Christian life. Literature can enlarge “our contains information that is applicable world of experience”, open our eyes to biblical for parents interested in providing a good truth, provide positive role models, and cure us education for their children. The principles of “chronological snobbery.” are particularly applicable for home education programs, but it is also applicable for students If you are already a fan of Chesterton, Lewis, who attend public or private schools. or Tolkien, you will enjoy reading this book. The book is written well, and the author The principle of one-on-one instruction is demonstrates a good grasp of the writings important because in a typical classroom a child of Chesterton, Lewis, and Tolkien. It will might get “six to seven minutes of one-on-one encourage the reader to read these authors for time with each student” on a daily basis. Kevin themselves. I recommend this book for college Swanson believes that one-on-one instruction and public libraries. is essential for helping a child reach his her potential. The principle of individuality focuses on the fact that all children have different gifts, 82 The Christian Librarian, 50 (2) 2007 abilities, and potentiality for learning. A recent The book provides a single user access code study released by the National Institute of to take the 30 minute online test. Results for Literacy found that half of American adults the individual’s top 5 strengths appear at the were unable to read at an eighth grade level, conclusion of the test. The majority of the thus the need to emphasize doing the basics. text involves a review of each of the strengths, beginning with a background statement to The author accomplishes what he sets out familiarize the reader on the strength, action to do. He provides ten essential elements or items in developing this strength in the tools to provide our children with a quality classroom, and then two brief examples from education. This book is recommended to all teachers who have this strength so a reader can libraries that provide parenting books, or books view a short practical application. for homeschoolers. Although the book seems to be designed more Teach With Your Strengths: How Great towards the K-12 teacher (through the use of Teachers Inspire Their Students, by Rosanne examples of great teachers), it also provides Liesveld and Jo Ann Miller with Jennifer helpful materials for newer college classroom Robison. New York: Gallup Press, 2005. 205pp. faculty and may be an encouragement for $24.95. ISBN 1-59562-006-0 librarians who have regular instruction Reviewed by Liz Leahy, Associate Dean of University assignments in the classroom. It might also Libraries and Chair, James L. Stamps Theological serve as an excellent classroom tool for Library, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA. educators who mentor future teachers. The What makes a teacher great? The authors book is appropriate for personal development contend that teachers who understand their collections, as well as for public and academic natural talents and utilize them well are libraries. As only one access code is provided happiest and are the most influential in the per book, it will be most helpful to library lives of their students. Based upon the Clifton collections where there is an awareness of the StrengthsFinder survey, the authors give a brief StrengthsFinder program. overview to the StrengthsFinders program, Iron Scepter, by Andrew M. Seddon. XLibris, targeting each of the 34 strengths specifically 2000.262 pp. $19.79. ISBN 0-7388-3812-8. to the teacher and present practical ideas on Reviewed by Werner A. Lind, Asst. Library Director, how each of the strengths might be observed Bluefield College, Bluefield, VA and nurtured in the classroom. British-born medical doctor Andrew Seddon Many readers may already be familiar with is (or should be) already known to readers of the StrengthsFinders program. This is a web- serious Christian science fiction for his novel based assessment instrument that measures Red Planet Rising (Crossway, 1995) and for talents from the perspective of Positive his short stories, published in such venues as Psychology, wherein emphasis is given to the Dreams and Visions. His contributions to the encouragement and development of individual genre continue with this excellent novel. strengths. The tool measures talents in 34 areas or themes. The Gallup Organization defines Many works of modern science fiction posit a these talents as “naturally recurring patterns far future of wide human galactic colonization of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be under the aegis of some vaguely-described productively applied” (49). Effectively, these secular humanist super-government, with, of lie in the essence of who you are – the way course, wonderfully “benevolent” ends and you behave instinctively. The authors write “enlightened” means –cosmic domination that talents, combined with relevant skills and with a smiley-face sticker. Seddon peels off knowledge, equate to strength; while true the sticker to give us a realistic picture of what talents are innate, they can be identified and such a galactic super-government, run by fallen nurtured. humans with all the flaws of unregenerate 83 The Christian Librarian, 50 (2) 2007 natures and responsible to nobody, would These four (a broad biblical model, evidence be like; his clear-eyed social world building from social science that supports this model, extrapolates directly from the present (where practical insights from experiences from governmental hubris and brutality are already parenting stages, and wisdom based in the apparent enough), without the usual naive expertise of the professional roles of the positing of an engineered future revolution in authors) are followed by the pointed statement human nature. that “relationships can’t be prescribed through techniques” – a justifiable criticism, leveled at In 2495, narrator Major Karel Novacek of the “typical” family relationship texts. Hegemony’s Political Bureau is in charge of the “re-integration” of the independence-minded In this eschewing of formulaic methods of colonists on the planet Lenore. But the major discipline so commonly presented elsewhere, is an internally conflicted man; and his job the authors demonstrate a keen awareness of is about to be complicated by the discovery the challenges of parenting in postmodernity. of another intelligent space-faring species in All of which is not to suggest that the authors the galaxy, and of a hidden agenda on the part offer little in the way of practical instruction of his superiors. (And the plot twists only – far from it. Rather, their method – that the begin there.) most fruitful model of parenting is responding to children “as gifts from God,” encouraging Explicit references to Christianity here, a partnership of creativity between parents though crucial, are few, and Christian jargon and children – offers a great deal of freedom is avoided; this allows the novel to reach non- for situational adaptation.
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