Children of God : the child as source of theological anthropology / Edmund Newey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newey, Edmund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Children.

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Children of God sheds 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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Note on Translations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Theological Anthropologies of the Child; Methodology; Jean-Yves Lacoste; A Brief Theological History of the Child; Outline of the Project; Structure of the Book; 2 'God made Man Greater when He made Him less': Traherne's Iconic Child; Rediscovering Traherne; 'Communicating most Enriching Truths'; 'Sin! O only fatal Woe'; Traherne's Orthodoxy; 'The Maner is [...] of greatest Concernment'; Conclusion; 3 'Sense Deified': Humanity in Divinity; Introduction

'Enjoying the World': Augustine's uti/frui Distinction ReconfiguredSelf-love and the Self in Relation; The First and Second Adam: Anthropology and Christology; 'Humanity [...] the Handmaid of true Divinity'; Conclusion; 4 'L'Élève de la nature': The Rousseauvian Shift; Introduction; The Question of Genre; 'Un art [...] d'être ignorant'; Immediacy and Mediation; Émile and the Tutor; Conclusion; 5 'Die reine Offenbarung des Göttlichen': Who is Schleiermacher's Child?; Introduction; Schleiermacher and Romanticism; Evoking a Mood: Die Weihnachtsfeier; Childhood and Gender

Christology or Anthropology?Sophiology; Conclusion; 6 'Einheimisch' or 'Neugeboren'?: The Whereabouts of Schleiermacher's Child; Introduction; Hermeneutics and the Child; Mediation, Immediacy and Incarnation; Ambiguities; Conclusion; 7 'La théologie détendue': Péguy's Liturgical Child; Introduction; The Child as Theological Figure; Incarnation; Typology; Conclusion; 8 'L'Éternel dans le temporel': The Child as Icon of Hope; Introduction; 'Modernism' and 'Anti-modernism'; Henri Bergson; Incarnation: Trinity and Humanity; Conclusion; 9 Conclusion; Introduction

The Child's Place in Theological Anthropology Today: Balthasar and LacosteTraherne, Rousseau, Schleiermacher and Péguy: Commonalities and Contrasts; Conclusion: Eschatology and Iconicity; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-57151-X

1-317-16779-1

1-283-62943-7

9786613941886

1-4094-3411-7

9781315571515

OCLC:

817874912