More Than Dates & Dead People

by Mansfield, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781581821185
• ISBN10: 1581821182
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Cumberland House

Summary

More Than Dates & Dead People: Recovering a Christian View of History", by Stephen Mansfield, is a lively, upbeat, edgy look at history as something exciting rather than a boring list of dates to memorize. The focus is on how a Christian world-view affects one's academic and scholarly interests. "

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Life in the House of Historical Horrors	1	(4)
History and the Monkeys	5	(6)
History According to the Owner's Manual	11	(12)
Back to the Future	13	(2)
Living in a Cardboard Tube	15	(3)
The Empire Strikes Back	18	(4)
Now What?	22	(1)
Armed and Dangerous	23	(14)
Seeing God	24	(1)
The Power of a Heritage	25	(4)
To See the Future	29	(2)
Escaping the ``Kingdom of Now''	31	(1)
Cleansing the Land	32	(1)
The Cloud of Witnesses	33	(2)
Restoration	35	(2)
Parachuting into the Past	37	(10)
What Is Religion?	38	(1)
What Is Culture?	39	(1)
What Is Law?	40	(2)
What Is Education?	42	(1)
What Is Art?	43	(2)
So...	45	(2)
Doing History: Reading History and Living to Tell about It	47	(54)
A Tale of Two Ships	49	(8)
Pocahontas: The Real Story	57	(7)
The Hidden Calling	64	(6)
Fire in the West: The Logan County revivals	70	(15)
Back to the Future: The Meaning of the 1960's	85	(16)
Let the Journey Begin!	101
Five Books to Get You Started	102
What to Read When You're Really Getting Serious	104
The Really Fun Stuff: learning From Historical Fiction	107
Hollywood Does History: Ten Great Films for Exploring History	110
Five Fantastic Web Sites for Learning Christian History	113
Hitting the Highways: Learning History from Travel	115
Three Films, a Magazine, and a Preacher	117
Five Helpful Organizations	119
Some Final Words	121