The child in Christian thought / edited by Marcia J. Bunge. [print]

The least and the greatest : children in the New Testament Judith M. Gundry-Volf -- The ecclesial family : John Chrysostom on parenthood and children Vigen Guroian -- "Where or when was your servant innocent?" : Augustine on childhood Martha Ellen Stortz -- A person in the making : Thomas Aquinas on children and childhood Cristina L.H. Traina -- The child in Luther's theology : "For what purpose do we older folks exist, other than to care for...the young?" Jane E. Strohl -- "The heritage of the Lord" : children in the theology of John Calvin Barbara Pitkin -- Complex innocence, obligatory nurturance, and parental vigilance" : "the child" in the work of Menno Simons Keith Graber Miller -- "Wonderful affection" : seventeenth-century missionaries to New France on children and childhood Clarissa W. Atkinson -- Education and the child in eighteenth-century German Pietism : perspectives from the work of A.H. Francke Marcia J. Bunge -- John Wesley and children Richard P. Heitzenrater -- Children of wrath, children of grace : Jonathan Edwards and the Puritan culture of child rearing Catherine A. Brekus -- "Be converted and become as little children" : Friedrich Schleiermacher on the religious significance of childhood Dawn DeVries -- Horace Bushnell's Christian nurture Margaret Bendroth -- African American children, "The hope of the race" : Mary Church Terrell, the social gospel, and the work of the Black women's club movement Marcia Y. Riggs -- Reading Karl Barth on children William Werpehowski -- "Infinite openness to the infinite" : Karl Rahner's contribution to modern Catholic thought on the child Mary Ann Hinsdale -- "Let the children come" revisited : contemporary feminist theologians on children Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore.

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