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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809417103321

Autore

Newey Edmund

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, 2013

ISBN

1-315-57151-X

1-317-16779-1

1-283-62943-7

9786613941886

1-4094-3411-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

233

Soggetti

Children - Religious aspects - Christianity

Theological anthropology - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.