MISSION NATIONS PRESENTATIONS NEWSLETTERS HISTORIC WRITINGS INTERN PROGRAM EVENTS TOURS SUPPORT PRODUCT ENDORSEMENTS LINKS CONTACT US HOME   Choose a category: Books | Videos | Specialty Books | DVD's | Audios/CDs/Sets | BWU Courses: Providential History | BWU Courses: The Family & Christian Education | BWU Courses: The Marketplace | BWU Courses: The State | BWU Courses: General Worldview | Specials Knights of the Brush: The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape By James F. Cooper This extraordinary work of cultural criticism analyzes the masterpieces of the Hudson River School, America\\'s golden age of landscape painting that flourished from almost 1825 to 1860. Iconic works are examined in relation to the religious, moral, and aesthetic sensibility that underlies their work. For these painters there was a moral purpose in being an artist, art was a sacred obligation. The paintings of the Hudson River School are filled with light, the most obvious manifestation of God\\'s presence, expressing man\\'s harmony with nature, seen as a second chance for mankind in the new Eden of the American wilderness. Individual chapters relate themes to the cultural crisis confronted by America today and to the cultural renewal as we enter the twenty-first century. Hardback, 58 color plates. $ 35.00 Check Out Statesman and Saint: The Principles Politics of William Wilberforce By David J. Vaughan Three years after William Wilberforce experienced experienced a religious conversion in 1784 as a young man, he began his lifelong crusade as a Christian statesman and philanthropist. Statesman and Saint is a captivating look at Wilberforce's leadership in action, particularly as it can be seen in his unrelenting forty-four-year crusade against slavery in spite of many setbacks in Parliament. He labored for eighteen years to secure abolition of the slave trade, enduring personal criticism, deep-seated prejudice, and threats on his life for another twenty-six years before the Emancipation Bill was finally passed in July of 1833. His influential book, A Practical View, laid the foundation for the moral elevation of the Victorian Era that followed his death only three days after the Emancipation Bill was passed in Parliament. Hardback. $ 16.00 Check Out The Education of James Madison: A Model for Today By Mary-Elaine Swanson No more remarkable example can be found of colonial education at its best than the education of James Madison. This work is devoted to tracing its outlines so that we may see why such outstanding results were obtained in the lives of so many students of Madison's generation who were similarly educated. The reader will then be in a position to judge whether a return to this caliber of education may not be the answer to the failed educational policies of contemporary America. Hardback. $ 21.95 Check Out