If you are looking for insight into the minds of biblical characters as they struggled through doubts, disappointments and anger, then this book is for you. Littleton starts each chapter with a passage of scripture and then uses that passage to help readers understand how to get honest with God in that particular area of their lives.

Littleton does a fantastic job of helping us see the humanity in the biblical characters that he uses for examples. They have the same struggles with God that we face today. If you are in the midst of one of those struggles right now, find out how God worked in the lives of the saints of old when they got honest with God.

GOD IS! is not a treatise out to prove God's existence. Mark Littleton seems to feel that would be superfluous. The book might be titled GOD IS...., for it is made up of tender, strong vignettes about what God is like. Page one begins, "How great is God's love?... 'It's like the Amazon River flowing down to water one daisy.'" Some stories settled on my heart as sweetly as grains of sugar. Others were soothing medicine to sore places inside me. I also felt at times a piercing, correcting some of my misconceptions. The words about God deeply touched and uplifted me. I think this author, like Abraham, must be known by God as His friend. Max Lucado couldn't have said it any more warmly.

This book is fantastic! We have used the methods Dr. Brody suggests to reward our children in a healthy, positive way. His ideas are simple, straight forward and easy to implement. We can't imagine living without such a thoughtful guide to parenting. Stop shopping around and order this book today!

Nashville Tales starts from the town's exciting beginnings from the people Nashville, Davidson County is named for, to the earliest pioneers dramatic stories, on into the 20th C. A natural story teller, Louise Davis wrote the best story on Revolutionary War General, William Lee Davidson, I've ever read! (I'm a fan of this hero). She also brings to life the times and heroics of the well-known and lesser known people that have shaped this town, the state and our country! Couldn't put it down. TN history lovers will find renewed spark as she reveals how a tiny log cabin community grew into the huge city today. Can't ever part from it.

Although currently out of print, The New Comparative Mythology has been required reading in many anthropology and folklore courses for several decades. Littleton was the first scholar to summarize the hypotheses of Georges Dumezil in English. Littleton expanded upon the ideas presented by Dumezil, creating a fabulous sourcebook for theories of folklore and mythology that has been continually updated over the decades. If you can get a copy, I highly recommend owning it, especially if you love the study of myths and myth theory.

The acquisition of a exhaustive background in contemporary sociological and/or anthropological theory is akin to Jesuit training. At the end of the day, you know that you don't know and you know that no one else know either, but you put doubts aside, settle on a core set of beliefs, and focus on a topic that provides funding. Although I spend my days measuring discernable patterns associated with categories of understanding recognized by mainstream social scientists, I devote many non-work hours reading about magic and religion. Hence my interest in THE NEW COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY by C. Scott Littleton.

Littleton characterizes his book as an anthropological assessment of the theories of Georges Dumezil. In Part 1. Background - Littleton describes the influence of Frazier, Durkheim, Mauss and other members of the French school of sociology. In Part 2, he describes the synthesis that took place as Dumezil studied Roman and Hindi "myths" and became aware of similarities between the two religious systems that led him to form the theory of Tripartition. Dumezil suggested a "three-part" structure could be discerned in Indo-European myths and social organization. Part 3 of Littleton's book includes a discussion based on material from Benveniste, Wikander, Gerschel, Frye, Kuiper, and others who conducted additional research, and either praised or criticized Dumezil's ideas.

As a former student of a student of Rodney Needham, I find any discussion of Structuralism as practiced by the French sociologist Levi-Strauss and his followers intriguing. Needham has translated some of Dumezil's writing probably because it is related to structuralism. Regarding this linkage, Littleton says that Dumezil discovered tripartition via "the abstraction of a specific set of structural principles from a specific set of mythic and epical texts. He did not bring to bear a general model, Hegelian or otherwise, of what the I-E ideological structure should be." In Littleton's words, the inductive versus the deductive approach.

In a note to the third edition published in 1982, Littleton says in recent years students have asked why anyone cares about Dumezil's ideas. He suggests these notions are important because 3-part thinking underlies the Western worldview [I-E = hegemony] and influences the way conclusions and opinions are informed.

This is a very age-appropriate devotional for pre-teen boys and girls. Each day's devotion is a story with a topic to which kids can relate. It is comparable to other children's devotionals such as The One Year Book of Devotions for Kids. This is a good devotional to get kids into reading and becoming familiar with their Bibles.

This book was very helpful. It provided fictional stories that illustrated each of chapter in the book. This book is for the use of the average christian teen looking to "pair up".

I highly reccomend this book. It is in my list of books to grab in case of fire. Creativity, spirituality and Godliness-what a find!

Harding is to be commended for this very enjoyable and God-centered book for children. Though, I think many adults would be edified by it as well. She uses each letter of the alphabet to teach an attribute about God. The entries are simple enough to understand, yet not simplistic. They are also consitent with classic Reformed theology (but are in no way polemic). I highly recommend this to all parents who are committed to seeing their children know the true God.