Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Vocation of the Child - Religion, Marriage, and Family Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Table of Contents: Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I. The Vocation, Calling, or Office of a Child -- 1. The Vocation of the Child: Theological Perspectives on the Particular and Paradoxical Roles and Responsibilities of Children / Marcia J. Bunge -- 2. In Search of Real Children: Innocence, Absence, and Becoming a Self in Christ / William Werpehowski -- 3. Luck, Obedience, and the Vocation of Childhood / John E. Coons -- 4. The Office of Child in the Christian Faith: A Theology of Childhood / Vigen Guroian -- II. Innocence, Depravity, and Hope for the Freedom of the Child -- 5. Christ the Pediatrician: Augustine on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Injured Vocation of the Child / William Harmless, S. J. -- 6. Thomas Aquinas and the Paradigms of Childhood / Philip L. Reynolds -- 7. Children Play with God: A Contemporary Thomistic Understanding of the Child / Patrick McKinley Brennan -- 8. Hope for Unbaptized Infants: Holy Innocents after All? / Anthony J. Kelly, C. Ss. R. -- III. The Rights, Duties, and Work of the Child -- 9. The Rights of Children in Medieval Canon Law / Charles J. Reid, Jr. -- 10. The Duties of Love: The Vocation of the Child in the Household Manual Tradition / John Witte, Jr., Heather M. Good -- 11. Children, Chores, and Vocation: A Social and Theological Lacuna / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore -- IV. Deciding Who the Child Will Become -- 12. Who Should Decide What the Child Will Become? / Charles L. Glenn -- 13. Soul for Soul - the Vocation of the Child in Lasallian Pedagogy / George Van Grieken, F. S. C. -- 14. The Vocation of the Child as a Learner / Elmer John Thiessen -- 15. The Best Interests of the Child: Modern Lessons from the Christian Traditions / Robert K. Vischer -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.