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The child in Christian thought

Author: Marcia J Bunge
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, ©2001.
Series: Religion, marriage, and family series.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A survey of Christian writings about children covers 2,000 years of history and literature and features a wide variety of theologians commenting on the subject.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marcia J Bunge
ISBN: 0802846939 9780802846938
OCLC Number: 44133063
Description: xiv, 513 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Religion, marriage, and family series.
Responsibility: edited by Marcia J. Bunge.

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