An Introduction to Child Theology - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1725285622 ISBN 13 : 9781725285620

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2022

Synopsis

These essays in this book are pastoral and scholarly, to encourage parents to nurture and foster Christian family life by learning from scripture and history. The Bible, in both testaments, offers us stories that provide moral and spiritual substance to the nurture of the child and the family. 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, then moving on to the stories of Abraham and Isaac, Ruth and her mother-in-law, Hannah and her son Samuel, Jeremiah the child prophet, these stories form our moral imaginations. Further, for Christians, they 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 further 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 one symbolic attempt was that of the monks' cowl which is a child's garment, and still worn in their monasteries. The book even explores the way that Christian maturity is one of childlikeness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James M. Houston is founding principal and emeritus professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is co-founder and a Senior Fellow of the C. S. Lewis Institute in Washington, DC. His teaching career began at Oxford, lecturing in the field of cultural and historical geography.
His areas of interest include the Christian classics, historical theology, and the traditions of Christian spirituality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1725285622
• ISBN 13: 9781725285620
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Houston James M.
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