The vocation of the child
By: edited by Patrick McKinley Brennan.
Contributors: Brennan, Patrick M., 1966-
Series: Religion, marriage, and family
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780802862402
Subjects: Children (Christian theology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The vocation, calling, or office of a child; title: The vocation of the child : theological perspectives on the particular and paradoxical roles and responsibilities of children / Marcia J. Bunge; title: In search of real children : innocence, absence, and becoming a self in Christ / William Werpehowski; title: Luck, obedience, and the vocation of childhood / John E. Coons; title: The office of the child in the Christian faith : a theology of childhood / Vigen Guroian; title: Innocence, depravity, and hope for the freedom of the child; title: Christ the pediatrician : Augustine on the diagnosis and treatment of the injured vocation of the child / William Harmless; title: Thomas Aquinas and the paradigms of childhood / Philip L. Reynolds; title: Children play with God : a contemporary thomistic understanding of the child / Patrick McKinley Brennan; title: Hope for unbaptized infants : holy innocents after all? / Anthony J. Kelly; title: The rights, duties, and work of the child; title: The rights of children in medieval canon law / Charles J. Reid, Jr.; title: The duties of love : the vocation of the child in the household manual tradition / John Witte, Jr. and Heather M. Good; title: Children, chores, and vocation : a social and theological lacuna / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore; title: Deciding who the child will become; title: Who should decide what the child will become? / Charles L. Glenn; title: Soul for soul : the vocation of the child in lasallian pedagogy / Br. George Van Grieken; title: The vocation of the child as a learner / Elmer John Thiessen; title: The best interests of the child : modern lessons from the Christian traditions / Robert K. Vischer.