Nurturing
Children’s Spirituality:
Christian
Perspectives and Best Practices
Holly Catterton Allen, Editor
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Preface
The Children’s Spirituality Conference: Christian Perspectives—2003,
2006, 2009
- Kevin Lawson
Part
One:
Definitional, Historical, and Theological
Issues Regarding Children’s Spiritual
Development
Introductory and Definitional Concepts
Chapter 1
Exploring Children’s Spirituality from a Christian Perspective
– Holly Catterton Allen
Chapter
2
“The Spirit of Children
Past”: A Century of Children’s Spirituality Research
– Don Ratcliff
Chapter
3
Children’s Spiritual Development: Advancing the Field in Definition, Measurement, and Theory
–
Historical and Theological Understandings of
Children’s Spirituality
Chapter
4
The Christian Nurture of Children in the Second and Third Centuries
– James Riley Estep, Jr.
Chapter
5
“Forbid Not the Little Ones”: The Spirituality of Children in Celtic
Christian Tradition
– Mara Lief Crabtree
Chapter 6 Theological Perspectives on Children in the Church: Reformed and Presbyterian
– Timothy Sisemore
Chapter 7 Theological Perspectives on Children in the Church: Anabaptist/Believers Churches
– Holly Catterton Allen
Part
Two:
Best
Practices for Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Development
Special Ways: Prayer, Storytelling, and Reading
Chapter
8
Unfettered Wonder: Rediscovering Prayer through the Inspired Voices of
Children
– T. Wyatt Watkins
Chapter 9
Making Stories
Come Alive
–
Chapter
10
Turning Down the Noise:
– Linda Callahan
For Churches and Schools
Chapter 11 Children's Ministry Models, Learning Theory, and Spiritual Development
–
Chapter
12
Equipping Kids for Ministry
–
Chapter 13 Documenting Children’s Spiritual Development in a Preschool Program
– Judy Harris Helm, Stacy Berg, and Pam Scranton
For
Families
Chapter
14
Parenting Styles and Children’s Spiritual Development
– SungWon Kim
Chapter 15 A Qualitative Understanding and Application of the Deuteronomy 6 Commands for Parents
– Marcia McQuitty
Chapter 16 God Across the Generations: The Spiritual Influence of Grandparents
– Holly Catterton Allen and Heidi Schultz Oschwald
For Unique Populations
Chapter 17
The Place of Forgiveness in the Reintegration of Former Child Soldiers in
–
Chapter
18
Voices Unheard: Exploring the Spiritual Needs of Families of Children
with Disabilities
– MaLesa Breeding and Dana Kennamer Hood
Chapter
19
The
– LaVerne
Tolbert and
Part
Thre
Facing the Challenges for the Future
Chapter
20
Reimagining the Spirit of
Children: A Christian Pedagogical
Vision
–
Chapter 21
The Church's Contemporary Challenge: To Help Adults Grow Up
Spiritually With Their
Children
– John Westerhoff, III
Chapter 22 THE Story and the Spiritual Formation of Children in the Church and in the Home
– Catherine Stonehouse and Scottie May
Chapter
23
“The Spirit of Children Future”
– Don Ratcliff
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