Adults As Children
Images of Childhood in the Ancient World and the New Testament (Religions and Discourse)
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Word Count
86,500 words, Guess
Page Count
346 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11397120M
- ISBN-139780820462899
- ISBN-100820462896
- OCLC Control Number123539704
- OCLC Control Number73109292
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Numberadultsaschildren0000fran
- Library of Congress Control Number2007270286
Classifications
- LCCBS576 .F73 2006
Description
This book is a study of the image of the child in the teaching of Jesus and the literature of the New Testament set against the background of the ancient world, the Old Testament and Judaism. It also reflects on the complex relationship between attitudes to children and the imaging of the child. It is suggested that child imagery serves, generally speaking, as a window on tradition, and in religious discourse in particular it offers perspectives on the relationship between believing and belonging. In exploring how child imagery informs the teaching of Jesus, it is argued that his own use of such imagery, whilst not unique, being influenced primarily by the wider imagery of Israel as God's son (child) and servant, is nevertheless distinctive. As a metaphor symbolising primarily a call to change and renewal, it conveys in microcosm the central themes of his message of the kingdom of God. The study goes on to explore the meanings of child imagery in the theologies of the Gospel writers and in other New Testament literary contexts.
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