‘Let the Little Children Come to Me’: Childhood and Children in Early Christianity. By Cornelia B. Horn and John W. Martens
Horn and Martens collate a variety of data concerning the experiences of children in early Christianity, Judaism, and in the Greco-Roman period more generally. The book seeks to illustrate the significant improvements that the authors believe that Christianity made in the lives of children, historic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 753-755 |
| Review of: | "Let the little children come to me" (Washington, D.C : Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2009) (Southwood, Katherine)
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| Summary: | Horn and Martens collate a variety of data concerning the experiences of children in early Christianity, Judaism, and in the Greco-Roman period more generally. The book seeks to illustrate the significant improvements that the authors believe that Christianity made in the lives of children, historically, sociologically, and culturally, and how children were appreciated in many aspects of communal Christian existence., The first chapter attempts to define what was intended when one was referred to as a child in the ancient world. The chapter illustrates the authors’ methodological cautions through acknowledging a number of problematic areas within the data concerning children. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq080 |