Doing theology with children : some challenges for adult theologians

Doing theology with children : some challenges for adult theologians

Doing theology with children, which includes children as equal participants in the process, is no easy task. Adult theologians face many challenges in becoming involved in doing theology with children. The probing question is: What are these challenges? This article identifies and discusses a few of...

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Published in:Hervormde teologiese studies 2019, Vol.75 (1), p.1-10
Main Author: Grobbelaar, Jan
Format: Article
Language:eng ; por ; afr
Subjects:
21st century
Adult-child relations
Adults
Child
Child theology
Childhood
Childist theology
Children
Children & youth
Christian theology
Christianity
Educational aspects
Epistemology
Exegesis & hermeneutics
God
Religion
Religious aspects
Religious conversion
Religious education
Spirituality
Study and teaching
Theologians
Theologies of childhood
Theology
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Summary:Doing theology with children, which includes children as equal participants in the process, is no easy task. Adult theologians face many challenges in becoming involved in doing theology with children. The probing question is: What are these challenges? This article identifies and discusses a few of them. It does not provide an exhaustive list, nor does it discuss each challenge in detail, although more attention is given to the important and crucial challenge to scrutinise our conceptions of childhood. It rather wants to stimulate a conversation about why it is difficult to involve children as equal partners in doing theology and in theological research.
ISSN:0259-9422
2072-8050
2072-8050