Natural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood
Olivera Petrovich, "Natural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood "
English | ISBN: 1138939471 | 2018 | 160 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1138939471 | 2018 | 160 pages | PDF | 3 MB
It is commonly assumed that young children only begin to think about God as a result of some educational or cultural influence, perhaps provided by their parents. Natural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood asks if there is anything about God that children can know independently of any specific cultural input; does their knowledge of God simply come from their everyday encounters with the surrounding world?
Whilst children’s theoretical reasoning in biology, physics and psychology has received considerable attention in recent developmental research, the same could not be said about their religious or theological understanding. Olivera Petrovich explores children’s religious concepts, from a natural-theological
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