For parents in today’s world, it can be hard to find the time and resources to fully equip our children to be spiritually mature adults. So much demands our attention and distracts us from God. Curley offers a resource to help parents structure their days and weeks to glorify God and disciple children. Using the church calendar as a guide, she proposes simple and realistic ways, as well as resources, for the whole family to engage in the Scriptures and thereby push back on the unrelenting culture of today.
For parents in today's world, it can be hard to find the time and resources to fully equip our children to be spiritually mature adults. So much demands our attention and distracts us from God. Curley offers a resource to help parents structure their days and weeks to glorify God and disciple children. Using the church calendar as a guide, she proposes simple and realistic ways, as well as resources, for the whole family to engage in the Scriptures and thereby push back on the unrelenting culture of today.
Kashefi’s Anvar-e Sohayli (15th c. A.D.) is a Persian rewriting of the timeless and influential Kalila wa-Dimna text, done at the Timurid court. Christine van Ruymbeke offers a first in-depth analysis of the contents and style of this important text and also addresses the Kalila wa-Dimna field across its full rewriting history. This analysis shows how Kashefi’s additions function as an invaluable commentary that opens up our understanding and the appreciation of this seminal text. This studies revisits several received ideas and current misapprehensions about the text and shows why it has been such an international best-seller before being unjustly relegated to children’s literature. In Van Ruymbeke’s words, Kalila wa-Dimna is a grim text, exposing the mechanisms of sophisticated psychological manipulation and exploring universal philosophical themes, known since Antiquity and still relevant today.
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