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183 INTRODUCTION 1. This and the following trends are documented by, among other groups, UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) and, for the United States, the Children’s Defense Fund. 2. Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (New York: Crown, 1995), 124, 125–26, and 129–31. 3. Ying Ying Fry, with Amy Klatzkin, Kids Like Me in China (St. Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong Book Co., 2001), 2–3. 4. Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007). 5. Ibid., 126. 6. Ibid., 169. CHAPTER ONE 1. Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood, trans. Robert Baldick (New York: Vintage Books, 1962). Ariès’s achievement is to demonstrate that the idea of childhood varies over history , but many have contested his view of what this variation actually consists in; see, for example, Linda Pollack, Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500–1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983). 2. Plato, The Laws, in The Collected Dialogues of Plato, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, VII, 808d, p. 1379 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961). 3. This and the following discussions of the Bible in this chapter owe much to Marcia Bunge, ed., The Child in the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008), and to the perspective of “child theology” found in parts of the Bible in John Collier, ed., Toddling toward the Kingdom: Child Theology at Work in the Church (London: Child Theology Movement, 2009). 4. Exodus 20:12. 5. Ephesians 6:1. 6. 1 Corinthians 13:11. Notes 184 Notes 7. Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin (New York: Penguin Books, 1961), I.7, p. 27. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid., I.7, p. 28. 10. David F. Wright, “How Controversial Was the Development of Infant Baptism in the Early Church?” in Church, World, and Spirit: Historical and Theological Essays in Honor of Geoffrey W. Bromiley, ed. James E. Bradley and Richard A. Mueller, 51 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans , 1987). 11. Qur’an 8:27-28. See also, for example, Qur’an 18:44, 57:19, and 64:15. 12. Martin Luther, To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools, in Luther’s Works, ed. Walther I. Brandt, vol. 45, p. 353 (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1962). 13. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960), 4.15.10. 14. Barbara Pitkin, “‘The Heritage of the Lord’: Children in the Theology of John Calvin,” in The Child in Christian Thought, ed. Marcia Bunge, 160–93, at 167 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001). 15. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 4.15.11 and 2.8.35. 16. Ibid., 4.6.18; 4.15.11 and 20; 4.16.9, 21, and 32. 17. Anthony Krupp has argued that Descartes holds a particularly dim view of children as the antinomy of his “ideal of cognitive autonomy”; they symbolize for him the merely embodied existence that Enlightened reason must overcome through his method of meditative doubt. Krupp, Reason’s Children: Childhood in Early Modern Philosophy (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009), 28–31. 18. Immanuel Kant, Education, trans. Annette Churton (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1960), 11 and 6, respectively. 19. Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981), 173. 20. Marcia Bunge, “Introduction,” in The Child in the Bible, ed. Marcia Bunge, xiv–xxvi, at xxiii. 21. Matthew 18:3-5; see also Mark 9:33–37 and Luke 9:46–48. 22. Judith M. Gundry-Volf, “The Least and the Greatest: Children in the New Testament,” in The Child in Christian Thought, ed. Marcia Bunge, 29–60, at 40–46. 23. O. M. Bakke, When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity, trans. Brian McNeil (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005). 24. Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus, Book I, chapter 5, in The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, rev. A. Cleveland Coxe (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994), 2:213–16. 25. John Chrysostom, “Homily LXII” of “Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew,” in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. W. H. Fremantle (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994), 10:385. 26. Qur’an 16:74; see also, for example, Qur’an...