The child's song
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Book Overview
Theological ideas and biblical injunctions have frequently been employed to legitimate the physical abuse of children. Some theological ideas are inherently abusive because they create fear in a child's mind, causing a child to feel alone, odd, and of little worth. Donald Capps exposes the abuses that theology and the Bible have inflicted on vast numbers of children. In particular, he is concerned with the "hidden" abuses of children by well-intentioned...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:066425554X
ISBN13:9780664255541
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Westminster John Knox Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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Important but disturbing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This book is an important but disturbing look at the mixed messages and hidden curriculum in modern churches. Congregations which paradoxically use blind obediance while asking one to trust a loving God who kills can either provoke a crisis of personality or a self-destructive impulse in children/teens/then adults. Christianity has too long been an adult dominated, child exploiting patriarch which vehemently denies children (and often women's) rights to life, self, happiness, and proclamation.It is a great beginning to an important dialogue.
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