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When Children Became People

The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity
  • ISBN-13: 9780800637255
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • By O. M. Bakke, Foreword by Brian McNeil
  • Price: AUD $73.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
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  • Local release date: 12/06/2005
  • Format: Paperback (254.00mm X 152.00mm) 358 pages Weight: 560g
  • Categories: Christianity [HRC]
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Bakke paints a fascinating picture of children's first realemergence as people against a backdrop of the ancientworld. Using theological and social history research, Bakkecompares Greco-Roman and Christian attitudes towardabortion and child prostitution, pedagogy and moralupbringing, and the involvement of children in liturgy andchurch life. He also assesses Christian attitudes towardchildren in the church's developing doctrinal commitments. Today, growing numbers of children are impoverished,exploited, abandoned, orphaned, or killed. Bakke's insightfulwork begins to untangle the roots of their complex plight.
O. M. Bakke is Associate Professor of Church History at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway. He has authored several scholarly articles on early Christianity. Brian McNeil has been translator of many books on the history of Christianity and biblical studies. Among his credits are two Fortress Press titles by Hans-Josef Klauck, The Religious Context of Early Christianity (2003) and Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity (2003).
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