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Liberation Theology in Exile: Marxism and Christianity in Lucia Engombe’s Child No. 95
Christianity & Literature, 2023Abstract: This article turns to Lucia Engombe’s memoir, Child No. 95: My German-African Odyssey , to unearth how Engombe wrestles with Marxism and Christianity to produce a type of liberation theology that substantiates some of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s key positions on such themes, which have been contested by critics since the publication of his A ...
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The Child at the Center: What Can Theology Say in the Face of the Scandals of Abuse?
Theological Studies, 2019Approaching the subjects of child safeguarding and children through a theological lens, the author shows the devastating scale, impact, and ramifications of the Catholic Church’s failures in safeguarding children, which become apparent in the current child abuse scandals, and how this crisis creates an opportunity to bring the child (back) into the ...
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The sin of the world: Schoonenberg's theology as a hermeneutic for the problem of child abuse.
, 2009 The magnitude of the problem of the abuse of children is finally beginning to be recognized in our society. While statistics vary widely, there can be no question that the problem needs serious attention. Repeatedly, studies have shown that we cannot view child abuse as an isolated phenomenon, or as a recent one. Instead, there is a long history of the
Smith, Gillian.
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The child and God: Some reflections from disability theology on divine-child encounters
International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2023There is a longstanding discussion in child theology around the role of cognition for faith formation. This article explores research in the area of disability theology in order to examine potential benefits for Christian ministry to the child. It suggests three areas which may be profitable: the importance of increasing information to accompany ...
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Female Child Soldiering, Gender Violence, and Feminist Theologies
Religious Education, 2021Why do young women become child soldiers and suffer from gender-based violence? In Female Child Soldiering, Gender Violence, and Feminist Theologies, the contributors present an impressively wide a...
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Theology and Today's Informed Child
Theology Today, 1965“Anti-intellectualism is historically traceable in American life, and the effectiveness of Christian education is not unrelated to it. Christians ought seriously to consider whether the church school, if it does not actively develop the intellect of today's informed child, can lead him to a knowledge of Jesus Christ.”
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A Clinical Theology of the Developmental Process: A Child Psychiatrist's Perspective
Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1994Christians have historically faced challenges when they have chosen a professional mental health career. These challenges, framed in the idiom of prevailing theories or in the behavior of colleagues, continue in contemporary practice. This work reviews aspects of the process of human emotional development which, rather than challenging a Christian ...
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