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"Examining Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There: A Christian Calling to Spiritual Childhood" dives into the positive and negative childlike habits that Alice, a representative of children and childhood, embodies and how Christians should identify and emulate her positive childlike behaviors in order to best fulfill their roles as spiritual children of God. Because Christians are children of God according to Romans 8:16, it is vital for Christians, like children, to understand the world around them, learn about themselves and others, and enjoy physical and mental play and recreation. Lewis Carroll found something dark and unforgiving in adulthood and lamented that children must grow up. Christians, however, are not called to physically be children and to be physically reborn in their mothers’ wombs; they are called to spiritually be children of God. This calling to spiritual childhood, when pursued by Christians of all ages will radically and positively transform their views of themselves, humanity, and God because they will be able to view themselves as loved children, humanity as people in need of love, and God as the ultimate, loving Father.
Examining Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There: A Christian Calling to Spiritual Childhood
Textual or Investigative
"Examining Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There: A Christian Calling to Spiritual Childhood" dives into the positive and negative childlike habits that Alice, a representative of children and childhood, embodies and how Christians should identify and emulate her positive childlike behaviors in order to best fulfill their roles as spiritual children of God. Because Christians are children of God according to Romans 8:16, it is vital for Christians, like children, to understand the world around them, learn about themselves and others, and enjoy physical and mental play and recreation. Lewis Carroll found something dark and unforgiving in adulthood and lamented that children must grow up. Christians, however, are not called to physically be children and to be physically reborn in their mothers’ wombs; they are called to spiritually be children of God. This calling to spiritual childhood, when pursued by Christians of all ages will radically and positively transform their views of themselves, humanity, and God because they will be able to view themselves as loved children, humanity as people in need of love, and God as the ultimate, loving Father.
