The Children's God - Hardcover

Heller, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226326357 ISBN 13: 9780226326351

Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1986

Examines how forty children, Catholics, Baptists, Jews, and Hindus, picture God, and shows what factors influence their spiritual perceptions

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About the Author:

David Heller is the author of Dear God: Children's Letters to God, The Pleasures of Psychology, and Power in Psychotherapeutic Practice. His work on children's views of God has been featured on 20/20 and the PTL Club Network and in USA Today, Psychology Today, Catholic Digest, Working Mother, and Good Housekeeping. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

From Library Journal:

Twenty girls and twenty boys, ten each from Baptist, Catholic, Jewish, and Hindu families, all between the ages of four and twelve, provided the material upon which psychologist Heller draws in order to tell us what children think about God. Some of the children's ideas are stereotypical: the boys think of God as pragmatically ra tional and distant; the girls think of God as aesthetically oriented and close. But readers may also be sur prised at the depth and freshness of the ideas expressed by these children. Since our ideas of God are rooted in our childhoods, this book helps us un derstand our own thinking. We learn, too, how responsible we and our adult world are for children's thinking about God. Certainly recommended for reli gion and psychology collections, but also for general collections. John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ. Lib., New York
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