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LLMom
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 10:13am \| IP Logged

Anyone used or seen Mystery of History ? Winter promise uses this with their Quest for the Ancient World and I am wondering if there is anything anti-Catholic.

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Posted: March 11 2009 at 10:34am \| IP Logged

I tried volume 1, and I was underwhelmed.

It was a great idea to integrate secular and bible figures, and I liked the timeline idea, but it was not very deep (ok depending on age of child) and the writing style was poor. Reading it aloud was difficult.
However, there was nothing anti-Catholic as such. However the "feel" was Protestant and the young earth stuff (Noah took dinosaurs on the ark, etc.) drove me nuts. But that might not be a problem for you or you could skip over it.

In my experience, Protestant stuff is ususally fine up to NT times.

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Posted: March 11 2009 at 10:50am \| IP Logged

My friend used book 1 of Mystery of History and loved it. She said that there is nothing that is against the faith, but there may be some things that don't quite mesh with it (still from a Protestant point of view). I know they talk about the "young earth theory". My friend also met with the author and the author told her that she(the author) had asked some of her Catholic family members to read it over to make sure that there is nothing against Catholics. My friend didn't continue with the program after book one because she knew that the Reformation was going to be covered and she wanted something with a Catholic point of view to cover that.

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Posted: March 11 2009 at 1:57pm \| IP Logged

I have it. I used it with the WP Ancients program a few years back. It is very informal, and aside from YEC stuff, it is fine. Nothing anti-catholic. It only covers right up to the Resurrection, so there were no catholics to be anti- towards, iykwim?

It really brings in Bible History and intertwines it with what is usually covered in history. So like, during teh same week that you are covering Homer (800 BC) you also cover the prophet Elisha (840 BC) and Joel & Obadiah (835 bc). The week when you cover Socrates & Hippocrates, you also cover Ezra.

The only problems I see with that, is that some things happened longer ago than they can allow for with a YEC stance. People likely crossed over the land bridge from Asia into the Americas about 20,000 years ago. That obviously is a problem if the earth is only about 6000 years old, as YEC claims. So, the first mention of it is later, and although she does cover how they got here, she says that they were in North America "as far back as 5000bc." Which is true, they were just here a lot longer than that, too....

It is written to be used with as young as 1st grade, on up, so as I said, it is informal in it's writing style. She is writing *to* the student.

We liked it fine. I like CHOW better. But I just happen to like CHOW. I think MoH is about as good as SOTW, but with a much more Judeo-Christian focus.

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Posted: March 11 2009 at 2:38pm \| IP Logged

What is CHOW?

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Posted: March 11 2009 at 2:46pm \| IP Logged

BethHG wrote:

What is CHOW?

CHOW = A Child's History of the World, by Hillyer

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Posted: March 11 2009 at 4:36pm \| IP Logged

Well this is interesting. I always wondered because its really popular with the protestant crowd. I was hesitant to try it, because of concerns with anti Catholicism. Thanks for the reviews!

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