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Jerome W. Berryman 
Becoming Like a Child 
The Curiosity of Maturity beyond the Norm

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Invites us to engage in the creative process, live creative, authentic, playful lives.
Berryman invites the reader into a creative process that explores what it means to be spiritually mature, starting with Jesus’ injunction to ‘become like a child.’ What does this mean at the literal level? the figurative level? the mystical level? the ethical level? The structure of the process parallels the book’s organization and the structure of Christian worship, as well as the arc of life itself. The steps on this journey begin when we enter, and the world of childlike maturity opens to us as we respond with inarticulate wonder and gratitude.
Berryman includes stories and examples from his long career working with children, which adds warmth and appeal to the book. He has described this volume as his ‘summary, theological statement.’

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Table of Content

Introduction: Maturity beyond the Norm


1. Happiness and Maturity beyond the Norm: The Child/Adult Paradox


2. Considering Children as Concepts: A Literal View of Jesus’ Saying


3. Imagining Children as Parables: A Figurative View of Jesus’ Saying


4. The Creator/creator Affinity: A Mystical View of Jesus’ Saying


5. How Then Shall We Live? An Ethical View of Jesus’ Saying


6. A Stable Nativity: Responding to Jesus’ Creation

About the author

Jerome W. Berryman is the founder of Godly Play and has a wide experience working with children ages 2–18. Priest, writer, lecturer, and workshop leader, Berryman is Senior Fellow of the Center for the Theology of Childhood. He is the author of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Teaching Godly Play, Children and the Theologians, The Spiritual Guidance of Children, and Stories of God at Home. He lives in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9780819233240 ● File size 0.5 MB ● Publisher Church Publishing Inc. ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6500601 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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