Theology

Children in Late Ancient Christianity

Ed. by Cornelia Horn and Robert R. Phenix

[Kindheit im spätantiken Christentum.]

2009. XXVI, 497 pages.

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 58

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Social, cultural, theological, and economic presentations of children offer important clues to understanding the development of Christianity and society in Late Antiquity. This volume brings together studies of a diverse collection of sources – patristic texts, apocrypha, medicinal treatises, hagiography, pseudepigrapha, papyri, and more – illuminating how children mediated the relationship between Christian thought and Late Antique society. The contributors address the existence of children's culture, medicine and healing of children, disability and deformed children, the economic condition of orphans, theological appropriations of children, the presentations of family relationships in Christian thought, monasticism and family obligations, early Christian response to pedophilia and the formation of Christian ethical identity, and the role of children in apocryphal texts.

With contributions by:
Reidar Aasgaard, Tony Burke, Carole Monica C. Burnett, Susan R. Holman, Cornelia B. Horn; Inta Ivanovska, Nicole Kelley, Chrysi Kotsifou, John W. Martens, Robert R. Phenix, Carrie Schroeder, Ville Vuolanto

Authors/Editors

Cornelia Horn is professor of Greek and Oriental Patristics, Saint Louis University, USA.

Robert Phenix Born 1973; 2005 PhD; 2008 Habilitation in the Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient at the University of Tübingen; currently an independent scholar.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Studia Historiae Ecclessiasticae — 37 (2011), S. 282–285 (Christoph Stenschke)

In: Intams — 18 (2012), S. 121–122 (Johan Leemans)

In: Vigiliae Christianae — 65 (2011), S. 458–459 (Nur Bibliographie)

In: Adamantius — 17 (2011), S. 452–457 (Chiara Barilli)

In: Theologische Rundschau — 76 (2011), S. 95–98 (Andreas Lindemann)

In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History — 62 (2011), S. 356–357 (M.J. Edwards)

In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 136 (2011), S. 906–908 (Jörg Ulrich)

In: International Review of Biblical Studies — 56 (2009/10), 1247

In: Anzeiger f.d.Altertumswissenschaft — 67 (2014), S. 123–125 (Mario Ziegler)

In: Archivo Teologico Granadino — 73 (2010), S. 369

In: Etudes Théologiques et Réligieuses — 2011, Heft 1, S. 120–121 (Serge Wüthrich)

In: Theological Book Review — 2010, Heft 2, S. 103–104 (Alexis Torrance)

In: Biblische Zeitschrift — 56 (2012), S. 156–158 (Michael Hölscher)

In: Bibel und Kirche — http://www.biblische-buecherschau.de/2011/Horn_Children.pdf (10/2011) (Eva Synek)

In: Laval théologique et philosophique — 68 (2012), S. 460–462 (Stéphanie Machabée)

In: New Testament Abstracts — 54 (2010), S. 604

In: Biblical Theology Bulletin — 41 (2011), S. 172–173 (Eric Stewart)

In: Verkündigung u. Forschung — 67 (2022), pp. 127–136 (Sarah-Magdalena Kingreen)

Authors/Editors

Cornelia Horn is professor of Greek and Oriental Patristics, Saint Louis University, USA.

Robert Phenix Born 1973; 2005 PhD; 2008 Habilitation in the Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient at the University of Tübingen; currently an independent scholar.

Reviews

The following reviews are known: