Returning to a Childlike Faith: Cultivating Trust, Wonder, and Play as Virtue and Worship

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dc.contributor.authorDearduff, Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-24T16:34:08Z
dc.date.available2022-10-24T16:34:08Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-11
dc.description.abstractWho is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? A child, Jesus says: For unless one turns and becomes like a child, she shall never enter the kingdom of heaven. He who humbles himself like a child shall be greatest in the Lord’s kingdom. These are the words of the Lord. Children are beloved by Christ and adored by today’s adult. Books like J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Lois Lowry’s The Giver and films like Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, classic pieces of artistic beauty in the genre of coming-of-age-fiction, possess a certain nostalgic appreciation, a reminiscent familiarity, for the celebrations and decimations of the adolescent protagonist’s story. Dr. Seuss and Shel Silvertsein remain timeless, with their characters and storylines anchored in the memories of those long- and far-removed from the age when their noses were buried in those outrageously illustrated pages. Adults dream of when time was abundant, responsibilities were fictitious, and money was nothing other than colored paper passed between finger-nail-chewed hands during “Monopoly Night.”en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEric Magnusson,en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11210/283
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectChristian Theologyen_US
dc.subjectJoseph Deardruffen_US
dc.subjectWorshipen_US
dc.subjectPlayen_US
dc.subjectVirtueen_US
dc.subjectSpring Arbor Universityen_US
dc.subjectchildlike faithen_US
dc.titleReturning to a Childlike Faith: Cultivating Trust, Wonder, and Play as Virtue and Worshipen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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