Tiffany’s Reviews > The Child in Christian Thought (Religion, Marriage, and Family > Status Update

Coming from a man who participated “in the ‘Church Struggle’ against Nazism’s effort to co-opt German Christian witness by way of a racial and nationalist ‘natural theology’ and who refused to take an oath of loyalty to Hitler…this says something.

Like I said - I will have to read Barth/a biography of him. Good stuff.

“A mother’s and father’s training and advice are to be a ‘joyful invitation to their children to rejoice with them’ in Jesus Christ. ‘To be joyful is to expect that life will reveal itself as God’s gift of grace, that it will present and offer itself in provisional fulfillments of its meaning and intention as movement. To be joyful means to look out for opportunities for gratitude.’”

I’m in Karl Barth now, which - I’ll have to read more about him.
Here’s the quote that goes perfectly with the sermon on Ps 16 I heard today re: contentment:

Finished Johnathan Edwards. It was…a lot.

Yikes.
This essay about the Jesuits & Huron outlined a lot of the misgivings I have about missionary work.
“The missionaries’ theology of childhood…was enmeshed in a cultural system that stokes us today as harsh, arrogant, and misguided. From our perspective it is obvious that those they regarded as their cultural inferiors had much to teach, had European Christians been able or inclined to learn.” Yeah.