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- Title
INFANZIA E SANTITÀ: Dall'esclusione all'inclusione.
- Authors
ZOCCA, ELENA
- Abstract
The ancients, unlike the moderns, considered the childhood almost incompatible with the holiness. They indeed evaluated this "stage of life" negatively considering it as marked by ignorance, lack of understanding and inability to self-control. Early Christians shared this point of view substantially and even the openness shown by Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels should be understood as his general concern for the last and the marginalized. However, under the pressure of various factors - among which is the reflection on Infantia Christi and the innocent death of little martyrs - step by step began a gradual revaluation of the first age, which led to positively evaluate its specific features. Childhood and holiness could then begin to present themselves in hendiadys.
- Subjects
JESUS Christ; PRIMITIVE &; early church, ca. 30-600; HOLINESS; MARTYRS; REFLECTIONS; PRESSURE; SELF-control
- Publication
Henoch, 2019, Vol 41, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0393-6805
- Publication type
Article