The Child's Song: The Religious Abuse of Children / Edition 1

by Donald Capps

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 adults and the role that religion plays in the legitimation of these abuses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664255541
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	01/01/1995
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Donald Capps is Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has written many books, including The Decades of Life and Jesus the Village Psychiatrist.