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  • The Process of Maturing: Human Childhood and Adulthood in a Theological Perspective

    The Process of Maturing by Sirka, Zdenko; Noble, Ivana;

    Human Childhood and Adulthood in a Theological Perspective

    Series: Studies in Theology and Religion; 37;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher BRILL
    • Date of Publication 27 November 2025

    • ISBN 9789004715653
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 235x155 mm
    • Weight 1 g
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    Following human life, from birth to death, with its different experiences, this volume of theological anthropology examines the possibilities and obstacles that impact on people’s self-understanding and on their spiritual life.

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    Long description:

    The authors explore theological anthropology through the different phases of human life. Beginning with birth and continuing through childhood to adulthood, to growing old and facing the closeness of death, the book looks into the roles of family, education, friendships, the religious community and its rituals. It considers challenges in living with a disability or illness, disruptions presented by social exclusion, experiencing violence, sexual abuse or having done wrong. It explores the possibilities and the difficulty of forgiveness and rehabilitation. It ends by inverting the perspective, looking at human becoming from the perspective of faith in the resurrection.

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    Table of Contents:

    Contents

    Foreword

    About the Cover Illustration

    Notes on Contributors



    Human Childhood and Adulthood in Theological Perspective: Introduction

    Ivana Noble



    1 Human Birth and Early Ecclesial Maturation

    Olga Lossky-Laham



    2 From Childhood to Adulthood

    Aleš Weiss



    3 Family Relations and Education

    Václav Ježek



    4 Transitions between Childhood and Adulthood in Islam

    Mujadad Zaman



    5 The Formative Time of Being Young

    Viorel Coman



    6 Friendship and Its Formative Role

    Athanasios N. Papathanasiou



    7 Maturity and Fruitfulness

    Pavol Bargár



    8 Emancipation of the Subject

    Michael Kirwan and Tim Noble



    9 The Impact of Disability

    Petre Maican



    10 Social Exclusion and Sexual Abuse

    Petr Jandejsek



    11 The Aftermath of Wrongdoing

    Pieter De Witte



    12 Parenthood

    Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer



    13 Ageing Gracefully

    Ivana Noble and Tim Noble



    14 Illness and Death

    Ian Randall



    15 By Such Order and Rhythms

    John Behr



    Afterword

    Index

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