Reviews for The Complete Guide to Godly Play: An Imaginative Method for Presenting Scripture Stories to Children, Vol. 1

The average rating for The Complete Guide to Godly Play: An Imaginative Method for Presenting Scripture Stories to Children, Vol. 1 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-11 00:00:00 Kim Perron This is a book that has interesting sections, and then long pieces (such as much of the last stretch) where, as in a book that has forgotten what the plot was supposed to lead up, rambles its way to a finish. That's not entirely fair, because even in the rambling sections (tidily written, but also repetitive) there are things I highlighted because they stood out as important. it's just that the book's shape doesn't quite come off, and by the time I was working through the last (long) pages, I felt as though the author had said a great deal of it before. The overviews and long quotes from Niebuhr and Bonhoeffer were both good, because neither of them are authors I was much familiar with. C S Lewis, in a sense suffers from overkill: so much of what's written about him here and the many quotes are already very familiar. Thank goodness for being able to highlight paragraphs and even pages: those sections are the ones I'll remember from this book. And Stackhouse's writing style, which, for a theologian, is very readable. Hopefully I won't remember so much the feeling of déjà vu that the last section aroused.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-06 00:00:00 Paul Gencik Review here.