Calvinism, Childhood, and Education: The Evidence from the Genevan Consistory
Calvinism, Childhood, and Education: The Evidence from the Genevan Consistory
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加尔文主义、童年和教育：来自日内瓦长老会的证据
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10.2307/4143916
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发表时间：
2002
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J. Watt
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J. Watt
新教改革对与儿童有关的实践产生了重要影响，会议纪录册为加尔文的日内瓦地区的儿童养育变化提供了宝贵的见解。日内瓦的领导人积极抨击他们认为是教宗的做法，例如，取消了死后或由助产士进行的洗礼，以及用圣徒的名字给孩子命名。该委员会还告诫母亲，尤其是父亲，要认真监督儿女的宗教教育，规定所有儿童每周都要参加教义问答课程，并禁止在天主教地区的学校预科。在处理患病儿童时，日内瓦当局禁止父母向圣徒祈祷，并禁止采用被认为是迷信的治疗方法。在这样做的过程中，卡尔文和他的同事无意中促成了某种心态的去神圣化。尽管最初对其中一些变化进行了强烈抵制，但日内瓦的俗人最终还是遵循了卡尔文所拥护的育儿方式。
The Protestant Reformation had an important impact on practices pertaining to children, and the registers of the consistory provide valuable insight to changes in child-rearing in Calvin's Geneva. Genevan leaders aggressively attacked practices they deemed papist, eliminating, for example, baptisms performed postmortem or by midwives and the naming of children after saints. The consistory also exhorted mothers and especially fathers to oversee carefully the religious education of their sons and daughters, mandated that all children attend weekly catechism lessons, and forbade matriculation at schools in Catholic territories. In dealing with sick children, Genevan authorities forbade parents to say prayers to saints and to employ cures considered superstitious. In so doing, Calvin and his colleagues contributed unintentionally to a certain desacralization of mentality. In spite of the initial strong resistance to some of these changes, the Genevan laity eventually conformed to the child-rearing practices espoused by Calvin.