Children of God uncovers the significant, but largely unnoticed, place of the child as a prototype of human flourishing in the work of four authors spanning the modern period.
Moreover, according to Roy Battenhouse, it is Platonic, and according to him that is not a bad thing either. In a seminal article written in 1948, Battenhouse sets out to challenge the generalization that Renaissance humanism is ...
Similarly, Paul Jacobs, “Die Lehre von der Erwählung in ihrem Zumsammenhang mit der Providenzlehre und der Anthropologie im Zweiten Helvetischen Bekenntnis,” in Glauben und Bekennen: Vierhundert Jahre Confessio Helvetica Posterior, ed.
Laughlin published a "Model Eugenical Sterilization Law" in 1914 which became the basis for the Virginia law as well as for laws in other states. Laughlin's model law authorized sterilization of the "socially inadequate", "feebleminded" ...
In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.
These interwoven stories harbor surprises at every turn, as the characters reappear. A group of thieves on the road to Jericho encounters no good Samaritan but themselves. A boy healed of his stutter will later regress.
A simple retelling of the Acts of the Apostles, the book of the Bible that describes how the first Christians took the good news about Jesus Christ to the people of many nations, to tell them how they also could become children of God.
Children and childhood are among the most neglected subjects of Christian theology. What does it mean to be a child of God if the examples of childhood in Scripture and...