Winter / Spring Speaker Series - Benjamin Abelow
The Crucified Child: How the History of Childhood Suffering Shaped Christianity
Amid heated debate about religion, a simple fact with profound implications has gone almost entirely unnoticed: New Testament themes closely parallel historical patterns of childhood punishment and abandonment. These parallels reveal much about the origins, appeal, and meaning of Christianity. This talk describes these parallels and explores their implications.
Benjamin Abelow received a B.A. in European History, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine, where he subsequently taught as Lecturer in Medicine for eight years. For the past ten years, Dr. Abelow has worked as an independent scholar, exploring links between childhood and religion from an interdisciplinary perspective. His special focus is how childhood punishment, abandonment, and neglect impact religious traditions and beliefs.
General Admission: $10, Friends of the Center: FREE
