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Greening the Children of God: Thomas Traherne and Nature's Role in the Ecological Formation of Children

by Rimmer Chad Michael Rimmer

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Pickwick Publications
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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Greening the Children of God uncovers the theological roots of the growing ethical imperative to reconnect children to their natural environment. Theologians emphasize the sacramental nature of embedding our lives in creation. Environmental educators emphasize knowledge of local biology. Psychologists emphasize the morally pro-formative experience of care between biodiverse creatures. Together they affirm that knowing their place in the natural environment helps a child develop an intersubjective "ecological" identity that nurtures virtues of mutuality and care. During the Scientific Revolution this ethical harmony was threatened as science and moral theology began to adopt different epistemological methods. Seventeenth-century Anglican priest and poet Thomas Traherne was prescient of the consequences of this divorce and insisted that education should promote a child's attention to the moral dimensions woven into "the tapestry of creation." Traherne professed that play, wonder, and a sensory relationship to diverse creatures play a pedagogical role in a child's moral formation. Greening the Children of God establishes the contemporary significance of Traherne's moral theory in conversation with child psychologists, educators, philosophers, and theologians who know that cultivating a place-based relationship to the local ecology helps children perceive creation's deep mutuality and develop a moral identity in the image of a caring Creator.
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Greening the Children of God: Thomas Traherne and Nature's Role in the Ecological Formation of ChildrenGreening the Children of God: Thomas Traherne and Nature's Role in the Ecological Formation of Children

  • Author

    Rimmer Chad Michael Rimmer

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Pickwick Publications

  • Published

    October 2019

  • Weight

    541g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781532653315

  • ISBN-10

    153265331X

  • Eden Code

    5114811

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