I finally recieved all my history stuff from my aunt... Now I know why she did not mail it! The bag wieghted a ton! I did order the Abeka history and was looking over them all... it seems Abeka spoke more about the great awaking... and stuff like that than the other... but the other had a greater portion on how slavery became a demand and Abeka just had 2 sentences about it... So I do believe I am going to be using both books for History......... Now for my question, which gives a better view of history... the Christian Perspective or the secular view... My aunt teaches at a Christian school, but they use secular curriculum, she told my she has a problem with much Christian Curriculum due to the fact that they don't always portray the Founding Fathers in the correct view... like Ben Franklin... she said that he was not a Christian... What are your opinions?
The problem is that there's nothing really in the middle. True, our founding fathers were not all "christians" neither were they all scrupulous. However, they also aren't as bad as some secular texts make them out to be. It's very hard to find a text that will not exalt them too much, nor vilify them too much! I bet using both would be a good idea, showing both sides of the coin.
thats what I thought... she is working on a solo acting preformance on the about a day in the life of a Colonial Child... it should be fun! I want to make it more fun for her, all this reading is getting boreing to her..
I think History is best approached from different perspectives and I think a Christian perspective is not a bad one considering the impact Christianity has had on history but I'll qualify that. A lot of Christian materials portray history in a modern protestant light. You're generally not really getting an overarching Christian view but a particular American Protestant view. That's fine but it sort of misses the opportunity to really get inside the Church as it was through much of history in the same way a secular text might. When it comes to Orthodox and Catholic church history I've seen some secular books that were much fairer then some Christian modern Christian sources. I'd say history is best approached from multiple viewpoints. The fact is most events can be viewed through different lenses and it's good to have a sense of those different lenses for a really thorough view of history. Interpretation is important and not everyone will have the same interpretation. When people get adament about what "really happened", "revisionist" history or the "right" way to view history then they've often missed that point.
