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Playful fathering: the burden and promise of Horace Bushnell's Christian nurture.

From: Fathering  |  Date: 6/1/2003  |  Author: Jensen, David H.

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 ...

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