Doing theology with children : some challenges for adult theologians
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Grobbelaar, Jan
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AOSIS Open Journals
Abstract
Doing theology with children, which includes children as equal participants in the process, is
no easy task. Adult theologians face many challenges in becoming involved in doing theology
with children. The probing question is: What are these challenges? This article identifies and
discusses a few of them. It does not provide an exhaustive list, nor does it discuss each challenge
in detail, although more attention is given to the important and crucial challenge to scrutinise
our conceptions of childhood. It rather wants to stimulate a conversation about why it is
difficult to involve children as equal partners in doing theology and in theological research.
Description
This research is part of the
research project, ‘Children,
Faith and Society’, directed
by Prof Stephan de Beer,
director of the Centre for
Contextual Ministry and
associate professor in the
Department of Practical
Theology, Faculty of Theology
and Religion, University of
Pretoria, South Africa.
Keywords
Child, Children, Childhood, Child theology, Childist theology, Theologies of childhood, Epistemology
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Grobbelaar, J., 2019, ‘Doing
theology with children: Some
challenges for adult
theologians’, HTS Teologiese
Studies/Theological Studies
75(1), a5636. https://DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v75i1.5636.