In the pre-Christian world, children were slain on pagan altars, and now, in the post-Christian world of the affluent West, children are again the object of adult hostility. In the U.S.A. the abuse of children has been called a "national emergency", while in almost every country on earth the killing of children still unborn has become an ideology of "choice".In this challenging book, John Saward examines the work of several Roman Catholic writers, including St. Therese of Lisieux, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Peguy, Georges Bernanos and Hans Urs von Balthasar who rose up in defense and celebration of childhood. This is a ground-breaking work in the theology of childhood and the analysis of modernity.
- ISBN10 0898707595
- ISBN13 9780898707595
- Publish Date 3 December 2005 (first published 1 May 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Ignatius Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English