When I first started to study the theology of childhood I was assured by several Bible scholars that it was a waste of time because the Bible had almost nothing to say about children. What they meant was that the Bible has little systematic theology about childhood. But children pepper the biblical narratives and there is a clear biblical understanding of, and attitude to, children. The other thing I was told was as a warning, that the theology of childhood challenges every doctrine and practice of the church. Foolishly I persisted, and twenty-four years later I am still wrestling with the implications because, while the assurance was wrong, the warning was
not.
Dr. Glenn Cupit
Glenn has published four books Kids and the scary world of video, The child audience, socialising the superheroes, and Perspectives on children and spirituality. Glenn is Senior Lecturer in Child Development in the deLissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies at the University of South Australia.
