Children of God: The Child as Source of Theological Anthropology
| By: | Newey, Edmund, Revd Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409434108 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409471189 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 P