Children of God The Child as Source of Theological Anthropology 1st Edition by Edmund Newey ISBN 9781409471189 1409471187

1 Introduction

Theological Anthropologies of the Child

Methodology

Jean-Yves Lacoste

A Brief Theological History of the Child

Outline of the Project

Structure of the Book

2 ‘God made Man Greater when He made Him less’: Traherne’s Iconic Child

Rediscovering Traherne

‘Communicating most Enriching Truths’

‘Sin! O only fatal Woe’

Traherne’s Orthodoxy

‘The Maner is […] of greatest Concernment’

Conclusion

3 ‘Sense Deified’: Humanity in Divinity

Introduction

‘Enjoying the World’: Augustine’s uti/frui Distinction Reconfigured

Self-love and the Self in Relation

The First and Second Adam: Anthropology and Christology

‘Humanity […] the Handmaid of true Divinity’

Conclusion

4 ‘L’Élève de la nature’: The Rousseauvian Shift

Introduction

The Question of Genre

‘Un art […] d’être ignorant’

Immediacy and Mediation

Émile and the Tutor

Conclusion

5 ‘Die reine Offenbarung des Göttlichen’: Who is Schleiermacher’s Child?

Introduction

Schleiermacher and Romanticism

Evoking a Mood: Die Weihnachtsfeier

Childhood and Gender

Christology or Anthropology?

Sophiology

Conclusion

6 ‘Einheimisch’ or ‘Neugeboren’?: The Whereabouts of Schleiermacher’s Child

Introduction

Hermeneutics and the Child

Mediation, Immediacy and Incarnation

Ambiguities

Conclusion

7 ‘La théologie détendue’: Péguy’s Liturgical Child

Introduction

The Child as Theological Figure

Incarnation

Typology

Conclusion

8 ‘L’Éternel dans le temporel’: The Child as Icon of Hope

Introduction

‘Modernism’ and ‘Anti-modernism’

Henri Bergson

Incarnation: Trinity and Humanity

Conclusion

9 Conclusion

Introduction

The Child’s Place in Theological Anthropology Today: Balthasar and Lacoste

Traherne, Rousseau, Schleiermacher and Péguy: Commonalities and Contrasts

Conclusion: Eschatology and Iconicity

Bibliography

Index