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Welcoming Children: A Practical Theology of Childhood

Welcoming Children develops a theology of childhood both from a…

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Unless You Become Like This Child

In one of the last books written before his death,…

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Unfinished Business: Children and the Churches

Are we quick to react angrily when children are abused…

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Understanding God’s Heart for Children: Toward a Biblical Framework

“Children create sanity in a mad world. They draw us…

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Their Name is Today: Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World

There’s hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile…

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The Way of the Lamb: The Spirit of Childhood and the End of the Age

‘Everywhere outside of Christianity, the child is automatically sacrificed.’ von…

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The Spirit of the Child

A thorough and revealing examination of the spiritual potential of…

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The Mystery of the Child

Much of today’s writing on children treats the child of…

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The Child in the Bible

In this volume nineteen biblical scholars collaborate to provide an…

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The Bible: A Child’s Playground

The issue of teaching children the Bible remains a distressing…

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Special Children? A Theology of Childhood

This is a book for Christian parents who want to…

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Precious In His Sight: Childhood & Children in the Bible

Though numerous volumes have been written on human observations about…

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One Generation from Extinction

When Robert Raikes started his first Sunday School in 1780,…

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Offering the Gospel to Children

This book calls on parents and Christian educators to allow…

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Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement

‘There is a confidence that arises from being utterly convinced…

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Like a Child: 70 Thoughts for Busy Grown-ups

The aim of this book is to raise a smile…

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Let the Children Come

Raising children is one of the most highly charged moral…

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Jesus and the Children: Biblical Resources for Study and Preaching

What can we learn from Jesus’ attitude to children for…

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Face to Face

Frances Young’s eldest son Arthur is severely handicapped. In this…

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Conversations with Children: Communicating our faith

A sure eternal perspective on reality is the best way…

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Children’s Spirituality: What it is and why it matters

Do you long for children to have a deeper experience…

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Children’s Letters to God

‘Children’s Letters to God’ is the unassuming national bestseller that…

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Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities

This collection of essays by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars…

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Children of God: Towards a Theology of Childhood

Children and childhood are among the most neglected subjects of…

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Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields

This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia…

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Children in Revival

300 years of God’s work in Scotland. Children in Revival tells…

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Children before God

This work seeks to delineate a theological framework into which…

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Children and Our Global Future

In Children and Our Global Future, Herzog challenges theologians, clergy.…

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Childhood’s Pattern

Looking back on childhood can be a strange mixture of…

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Arthurs Call

A journey of faith in the face of severe learning…

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A Little Child Shall Lead Them

PARENTING WAS NEVER EASY In these times of cultural decline…

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Godly Play

Godly Play – European Perspectives on Practice and Research Ed…

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ANVIL Journal of Theology and Mission

ANVIL Journal of Theology and Mission, Vol 35, Issue 1…

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Theology and Families. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publ. Ltd, 2007.

Thatcher, Adrian. Theology and Families. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publ. Ltd,…

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Incorporating Children in Worship: Mark of the Kingdom.

Review for the Child Theology Movement Web site, 21.09.2017 Clifton-Soderstrom,…

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Seeing Children, Seeing God: A Practical Theology of Children and Poverty

Review for Child Theology Movement Web page. 21.09.2017 Couture, Pamela.…

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The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible

CTM Book Review. -Aug 2016 Steinberg, Naomi. The World of the…

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The Child in Christian Thought

(English) ISBN: ISBN-10: 0802846939 ISBN-13: 978-0802846938 Paperback: 513 pages Publisher:…

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Children and the Theologians: Clearing the Way for Grace

(English) ISBN: ISBN-10: 0819223476 ISBN-13: 978-0819223470 Hardback: 276 pages Publisher:…

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The Logic of the Spirit in Human Thought and Experience

Exploring the Vision of James E. Loder Jr. – Click…

Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs' Tails: Helping Boys Connect with God

Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs’ Tails: Helping Boys Connect with God

‘We have such a problem with our boys . .…

Essays & Articles

Reading for Inclusion: The Girl from Galilee (Luke 8:40-56)

Allen, Rev. Dr. Amy. “Reading for Inclusion: The Girl from…

Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen – Child Theologians? By Haddon Willmer

Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen – Child Theologians? By Haddon…

As a little child: Children in the Theology of John Wesley

Back in 2010, Peter Benzie completed his dissertation called: as a…

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List of Recommended Books

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