Playful Fathering: The Burden and Promise of Horace Bushnell's Christian Nurture

Autor:	David H. Jensen
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Individualism Health (social science) Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Aesthetics Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Interpretation (philosophy) Gender studies Sociology Duty Nature versus nurture media_common
Zdroj:	Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers. 1:169-177
ISSN:	1933-026X 1537-6680
DOI:	10.3149/fth.0102.169
Popis:	Horace Bushnell’s Christian Nurture yields both oppressive and liberating strands for a contemporary interpretation of fatherhood. The work’s critique of American individualism, its thoroughly relational understanding of human beings, and description of the family as a web of organic connection offer promising lenses for a post-patriarchal understanding of fatherhood. At the same time, Bushnell’s relational anthropology is plagued by an understanding of the mother as protector of hearth and home that eventually proves oppressive to all members of the human family. Embedded within its pages, however, lies a potentially illuminating reflection on the significance of playing with children. This emphasis on play might prove helpful in expanding a view of fathering beyond duty and toward delight, grounded in the God of creation who delights in all God’s children.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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