Children of God: The Child as Source of Theological Anthropology

Cover
Contents
Note on Translations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
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