"It matters a great deal who is going to win, but not at all who won"
Physical education, sports, and wellness
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Physical education, sports, and wellness: looking to God as we look at ourselves, J Byl, T Visker Editors, Dordt College Press, 1999. ISBN 0-932914-43-8 (336 pages)
The book consists of 20 chapters by different authors, arranged in 5 sections
Your body: good and beautiful
Your body: glorifying God and enjoying God always
Teaching Physical Education
Learning through sport
Historically rooted perspectives
The chapters are:
The Bible and the body: a biblical perspective on health and physical education - John Cooper
The Incarnation and the flesh - Bud Williams
Somatospiritual model: A biomechanist looks at the Bible - Brian W Bergemann
Transforming wellness: linking spiritual concepts to personal health - Timothy J Voss
Spirituality and wellness: student perspectives - John Byl
Attitudes of member institutions of the coalition for Christian colleges and universities toward required health and fitness courses in the core curriculum - Allison J Mc Farland
Developing an aim-centred K-12 physical education program based on Christian tenets - Marvin A Zuidema
Leadership theory as it applies to academic work - Beth A Easter and Dale E Gibson
Sport education: more necessary than ever - James Timmer
International integration of Scripture into the steady of sport sociology- Allison J Mc Farland
We coach "play the whistle" but what happens when the whistle breaks? - G Gidman, D Turkington
Christian sports and leisure - oxymoron or redundancy? - C Zylstra
Sports ethics via Thoreau - Douglas Hochstetler
A reflection on the moral value of interscholastic athletes - Calvin P Van Reken
Pressure to win? But I'm a Christian coach in a Christian college, K Hunt,
Moral reasoning: what it is and how it is best accomplished in the classroom and a gymnasium - Sharon K Stoll
The effects of religiosity, education and experience on the moral reasoning levels of NCAA division III male head athletic directors- James Timmer
Senior students perspectives on physical education - Murray W Hall
Calvinist and mennonites: a pilot study on shepherding Christianity and sport in Canada - John Byl
A contrast between physical activity in the early church and Muscular Christianity: what implications does this have for the 21st century? DE Campbell,
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