Children of God: The Child as Source of Theological Anthropology
Children of God: The Child as Source of Theological Anthropology By Edmund Newey
2012 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 1138118613 | PDF | 2 MB
2012 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 1138118613 | PDF | 2 MB
Children of God uncovers the significant, but largely unnoticed, place of the child as a prototype of human flourishing in the work of four authors spanning the modern period. Shedding new light on the role of the child figure in modernity, and in theological responses to it, the book makes an important contribution to the disciplines of historical theology, theology and literature and ecumenical theology. Through a careful exploration of the continuities and differences in the work of Thomas Traherne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Charles Péguy, it traces the ways in which their distinctive responses to human childhood structured the broader pattern of their theology, showing how they reached beyond the confines of academic theology and exercised a lasting influence on their literary and cultural context.