Recommended Books

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General, Introductory, What is the Child

Bonnie Miller: Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective (Families and Faith Series)
Martin Marty: The Mystery of the Child (Religion, Marriage, and Family)

History of Child in Christianity

Marcia Bunge: The Child in Christian Thought and Practice (Religion, Marriage, and Family)
Jerome Berryman: Children and the Theologians: Clearing the Way for Grace
David Sims: The Child in American Evangelicalism and the Problem of Affluence: A Theological Anthropology of the Affluent American-Evangelical Child in Late Moder
Harry Sprange: CHILDREN IN REVIVAL
David Jarman et al: Childhood's Pattern: Christian Childhoods Explored
O.M. Bakke: When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity
Rowan Williams: Lost Icons

History of Childhood and Child

Cunningham: The Invention of Childhood
Aries: Centuries Of Childhood
Jenks: Sociology of Childhood: Essential Readings

Bible

Marcia Bunge (ed): The Child in the Bible
Hans-Ruedi Weber: Jesus and the Children
Zuck: Precious in His Sight: Childhood and Children in the Bible

Examples of CT as we conceive it

Frances Young: Face to Face: Narrative Essay in the Theology of Suffering
Henri Nouwen: Adam: God's Beloved: 11
Saward: The Way of the Lamb: The Spirit of Childhood and the End of the Age
Rahner: “Infinite Openness to the Infinite” Chapter by Mary Hinsdale in The Child in Christian Thought and Practice (Religion, Marriage, and Family)
Von Balthasar: Unless You Become Like This Child
Kristin Herzog: Children and Our Global Future: Theological and Social Challenges
David Jensen: Graced Vulnerability: A Theology of Childhood
James Loder: The Logic of Spirit: Human Development in Theological Perspective
Jerome Berryman: Teaching Godly Play: The Sunday Morning Handbook
Helen Oppenheimer: Finding and Following: Talking with Children About God
Jostein Gaarder: Through A Glass, Darkly

Through the Eyes of a Child

A. Richards and P Privett: Through the Eyes of a Child: New Insights in Theology from a Child's Perspective
Hay and Nye: The Spirit of the Child
Nye: Children's Spirituality (What It Is and Why It Matters)
Ronni Lamont: Understanding Children Understanding God

Theology of Childhood

Angela Shier-Jones: Children of God: Towards a Theology of Childhood

Missiological/Practical

G. Myles and J-J Wright: Celebrating Children.Equipping people working with children and young people living in difficult circumstances around the world
Joyce Mercer: Welcoming Children: A Practical Theology of Childhood
Mark Griffiths: One Generation from Extinction: How the Church Connects with the Unchurched Child
Dan Brewster: Future Impact: Connecting Child, Church and Mission
J.C.Arnold: A Little Child Shall Lead Them: Hopeful Parenting in a Confused World
Gretchen Wolff Pritchard: Offering the Gospel to Children
Sister Magdalen: Conversations with children: Communicating our faith

Fiction

C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia: All seven Chronicles bound together
Richard Hughes: High Wind In Jamaica (Vintage classics)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
George Eliot: Silas Marner (Wordsworth Classics)