The least and the greatest: children in the New Testament / Judith M. Gundry-Volf -- The ecclesial family: John Chrysostom on parenthood and children / Vigen Guroian -- "Where or when was your servant innocent?": Augustine on childhood / Martha Ellen Stortz -- A person in the making: Thomas Aquinas on children and childhood / Cristina L.H. Traina -- The child in Luther's theology: "For what purpose do we older folks exist, other than to care for...the young?" / Jane E. Strohl -- "The heritage of the Lord": children in the theology of John Calvin / Barbara Pitkin -- Complex innocence, obligatory nurturance, and parental vigilance": "the child" in the work of Menno Simons / Keith Graber Miller -- "Wonderful affection": seventeenth-century missionaries to New France on children and childhood / Clarissa W. Atkinson -- Education and the child in eighteenth-century German Pietism: perspectives from the work of A.H. Francke / Marcia J. Bunge -- John Wesley and children / Richard P. Heitzenrater -- Children of wrath, children of grace: Jonathan Edwards and the Puritan culture of child rearing / Catherine A. Brekus -- "Be converted and become as little children": Friedrich Schleiermacher on the religious significance of childhood / Dawn DeVries -- Horace Bushnell's Christian nurture / Margaret Bendroth -- African American children, "The hope of the race": Mary Church Terrell, the social gospel, and the work of the Black women's club movement / Marcia Y. Riggs -- Reading Karl Barth on children / William Werpehowski -- "Infinite openness to the infinite": Karl Rahner's contribution to modern Catholic thought on the child / Mary Ann Hinsdale -- "Let the children come" revisited: contemporary feminist theologians on children / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore.