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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick M Brennan |
| ISBN: | 9780802862402 0802862403 |
| OCLC Number: | 192083014 |
| Description: | xvi, 445 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- The vocation, calling, or office of a child -- The vocation of the child : theological perspectives on the particular and paradoxical roles and responsibilities of children / Marcia J. Bunge -- In search of real children : innocence, absence, and becoming a self in Christ / William Werpehowski -- Luck, obedience, and the vocation of childhood / John E. Coons -- The office of the child in the Christian faith : a theology of childhood / Vigen Guroian -- Innocence, depravity, and hope for the freedom of the child -- Christ the pediatrician : Augustine on the diagnosis and treatment of the injured vocation of the child / William Harmless -- Thomas Aquinas and the paradigms of childhood / Philip L. Reynolds -- Children play with God : a contemporary thomistic understanding of the child / Patrick McKinley Brennan -- Hope for unbaptized infants : holy innocents after all? / Anthony J. Kelly -- The rights, duties, and work of the child -- The rights of children in medieval canon law / Charles J. Reid, Jr. -- The duties of love : the vocation of the child in the household manual tradition / John Witte, Jr. and Heather M. Good -- Children, chores, and vocation : a social and theological lacuna / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore -- Deciding who the child will become -- Who should decide what the child will become? / Charles L. Glenn -- Soul for soul : the vocation of the child in lasallian pedagogy / Br. George Van Grieken -- The vocation of the child as a learner / Elmer John Thiessen -- The best interests of the child : modern lessons from the Christian traditions / Robert K. Vischer. |
| Series Title: | Religion, marriage, and family series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Patrick McKinley Brennan. |
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Abstract:
"The calling of the child has been a perennial puzzle for the Christian community. What is childhood for? Is its main purpose play, work, growth, or some combination of the three? Most discussions of childhood tend to center on a child's rights or duties, marginalizing the child as an incomplete adult, insignificant until grown into independence. But if we believe that God has a vocation for every person, must we not also apply this to children?".
"The Vocation of the Child seeks to understand the child as a person in his or her own right, as a member of family and of community, and as a son or daughter of a God who came to earth as a child. Distinguished jurist Patrick McKinley Brennan has gathered fifteen other respected scholars from various fields to consider seriously the vocation of the child."--BOOK JACKET.
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