An Introduction to Child Theology
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An Introduction to Child Theology

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

An Introduction to Child Theology

About this book

These essays are pastoral, to encourage parents to nurture and foster Christian family life. In an era of child abuse, and the scandal of Roman Catholic priests and cardinals, contrastive with the married priests and Patriarchs of the Orthodox National Churches, the direction forward for the reform of the Papacy is clearly to encourage married priesthood. Beginning with the mythopoetic story of Adam and Eve, and the fratricide of Abel by the envy of Cain, the stories of the sacrifices parents made, beginning with Abraham and Isaac, Ruth and her mother-in-law, Hannah and her son Samuel, Jeremiah the child prophet, all augur the promise of the Incarnation, with the birth of Jesus to Mary and Joseph. Then through the history of the Church the role of the Child is unfolded. It begins with Jesus teaching that to be as one of his disciples is to be a child. This is so radical that the subsequent churches have found it hard to follow. Perhaps a symbolic attempt was that of the monks' cowl which is a child's garment, and still worn in their monasteries.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. List of Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: The Childhood of Humanity in the Biblical Narrative
  6. Chapter 2: Isaac the Son and the Shadow of Ishmael
  7. Chapter 3: Fear and Love in the Book of Ruth
  8. Chapter 4: Wise Child-Rearing According to Proverbs
  9. Chapter 5: “Only a Boy”?
  10. Chapter 6: While Knit In My Mother’s Womb
  11. Chapter 7: The Genius of the Greek Mind
  12. Chapter 8: Scripture on the Birth and Infancy of Jesus
  13. Chapter 9: Childhood in Islam and the Heritage of Shame
  14. Chapter 10: Memory and Character Formation
  15. Chapter 11: The Child in the Early Middle Ages
  16. Chapter 12: “Let the Little Children Come to Me”
  17. Chapter 13: John Macmurray’s Vision of the Personal Based on Child Development
  18. Chapter 14: Child Resilience Despite Extreme Trauma/Deprivation
  19. Chapter 15: My Childhood Theology
  20. Chapter 16: And That Is What We Are
  21. Chapter 17: To Be a Christian Was to Be a Child to God
  22. Chapter 18: “A Childhood into Which We Have to Grow”
  23. Chapter 19: To the Time before Time Began
  24. Chapter 20: The Child in the Midst
  25. Bibliography