The Child's Song: The Religious Abuse of Children

Theological ideas and biblical injunctions have frequently been employed to legitimate the physical abuse of children. Some theological ideas are inherently abusive because they create fear in a childs mind causing a child to feel alone odd and of little worth. Donald Capps exposes the abuses that theology and the Bible have inflicted on vast numbers of children. In particular he is concerned with the hidden abuses of children by well-intentioned adults and the role that religion plays in the legitimation of these abuses.