The child in Christian thought / [print]
edited by Marcia J. Bunge.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans, (c)2001.
- xiv, 513 pages ; 24 cm.
The least and the greatest : children in the New Testament The ecclesial family : John Chrysostom on parenthood and children "Where or when was your servant innocent?" : Augustine on childhood A person in the making : Thomas Aquinas on children and childhood The child in Luther's theology : "For what purpose do we older folks exist, other than to care for...the young?" "The heritage of the Lord" : children in the theology of John Calvin Complex innocence, obligatory nurturance, and parental vigilance" : "the child" in the work of Menno Simons "Wonderful affection" : seventeenth-century missionaries to New France on children and childhood Education and the child in eighteenth-century German Pietism : perspectives from the work of A.H. Francke John Wesley and children Children of wrath, children of grace : Jonathan Edwards and the Puritan culture of child rearing "Be converted and become as little children" : Friedrich Schleiermacher on the religious significance of childhood Horace Bushnell's Christian nurture African American children, "The hope of the race" : Mary Church Terrell, the social gospel, and the work of the Black women's club movement Reading Karl Barth on children "Infinite openness to the infinite" : Karl Rahner's contribution to modern Catholic thought on the child "Let the children come" revisited : contemporary feminist theologians on children Judith M. Gundry-Volf -- Vigen Guroian -- Martha Ellen Stortz -- Cristina L.H. Traina -- Jane E. Strohl -- Barbara Pitkin -- Keith Graber Miller -- Clarissa W. Atkinson -- Marcia J. Bunge -- Richard P. Heitzenrater -- Catherine A. Brekus -- Dawn DeVries -- Margaret Bendroth -- Marcia Y. Riggs -- William Werpehowski -- Mary Ann Hinsdale -- Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore.
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Children--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.