When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity

By Odd Magne Bakke

Book Overview

Bakke paints a fascinating picture of children's first real emergence as people against a backdrop of the ancient world. Using theological and social history research, Bakke compares Greco-Roman and Christian attitudes toward abortion and child prostitution, pedagogy and moral upbringing, and the involvement of children in liturgy and church life. He also assesses Christian attitudes toward children in the church's developing doctrinal commitments. Today, growing numbers of children are impoverished, exploited, abandoned, orphaned, or killed. Bakke's insightful work begins to untangle the roots of their complex plight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800637259
• ISBN13: 9780800637255
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"