The Child in Christian Thought

by Bunge, Marcia J.

• ISBN13: 9780802846938
• ISBN10: 0802846939
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

This volume offers the first major survey of the history of Christian thought on children. Each chapter, written by an expert in the field, discusses the particular perspectives on children held by influential theologians and Christian movements throughout church history, asking what resources they can contribute to a sound contemporary view of childhood and child-rearing. Intended for all readers, this needed book will be a valuable resource for laying the foundation for a new, more meaningful Christian view of childhood today.

Author Biography

Marcia J. Bunge is associate professor of theology and humanities at Christ College, Valparaiso University, Indiana

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	x
Acknowledgments	xii
Introduction	1	(28)
Marcia J. Bunge
The Least and the Greatest: Children in the New Testament	29	(32)
Judith M. Gundry-Volf
The Ecclesial Family: John Chrysostom on Parenthood and Children	61	(17)
Vigen Guroian
``Where or When Was Your Servant Innocent?'' Augustine on Childhood	78	(25)
Martha Ellen Stortz
A Person in the Making: Thomas Aquinas on Children and Childhood	103	(31)
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?''	134	(26)
Jane E. Strohl
``The Heritage of the Lord'': Children in the Theology of John Calvin	160	(34)
Barbara Pitkin
Complex Innocence, Obligatory Nurturance, and Parental Vigilance: ``The Child'' in the Work of Menno Simons	194	(33)
Keith Graber Miller
``Wonderful Affection'': Seventeenth-Century Missionaries to New France on Children and Childhood	227	(20)
Clarissa W. Atkinson
Education and the Child in Eighteenth-Century German Pietism: Perspectives from the Work of A. H. Francke	247	(32)
Marcia J. Bunge
John Wesley and Children	279	(21)
Richard P. Heitzenrater
Children of Wrath, Children of Grace: Jonathan Edwards and the Puritan Culture of Child Rearing	300	(29)
Catherine A. Brekus
``Be Converted and Become as Little Children'': Friedrich Schleiermacher on the Religious Significance of Childhood	329	(21)
Dawn DeVries
Horace Bushnell's Christian Nurture	350	(15)
Margaret Bendroth
African American Children, ``The Hope of the Race'': Mary Church Terrell, the Social Gosepl, and the Work of the Black Women's Club Movement	365	(21)
Marcia Y. Riggs
Reading Karl Barth on Children	386	(20)
William Werpehowski
``Infinite Openness to the Infinite'': Karl Rahner's Contribution to Modern Catholic Thought on the Child	406	(40)
Mary Ann Hinsdale
``Let the Children Come'' Revisited: Contemporary Feminist Theologians on Children	446	(28)
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Select Bibliography	474	(24)
Contributors	498	(2)
Indexes
Subjects	500	(6)
Names	506	(5)
Scripture References	511