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Children ask questions about violence and nonviolence in scripture. Children’s belief in a God of love can be challenged by the violent acts described in the Bible. Catherine has decades as a Montessori educator, theologian, and catechist of the Good Shepherd. She has thought deeply about this question. In Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture: Helping Chldren Understand Challenging Stories, she bridges years of reading the Bible with children and her commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking.
Catechists and religious educators will find this a welcome and helpful resource in their own work with children.
Author: Catherine Maresca
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher; Liturgy Training Publications
Children ask questions about violence and nonviolence in scripture. Children’s belief in a God of love can be challenged by the violent acts described in the Bible. Catherine has decades as a Montessori educator, theologian, and catechist of the Good Shepherd. She has thought deeply about this question. In Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture: Helping Chldren Understand Challenging Stories, she bridges years of reading the Bible with children and her commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking.
Catechists and religious educators will find this a welcome and helpful resource in their own work with children.
Sarah Ann Bixler, Assistant Professor, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Virginia –
Honoring children’s natural capacity for spiritual insight, Maresca does not seek to explain the violence in the Bible to children– rather, she provides tools for adults to reflect theologically on it with children in age-appropriate ways. Resisting simple answers that are too shallow after early childhood, Maresca’s approach lays a foundation for the dynamic interaction with Scripture that God’s Spirit uses to form deep faith.