Suffer the Children

Library Journal

This book is both courageous in its exploration of the past abuse and subsequent feelings and theologically creative in its application of Christian doctrines of the Fall and the Incarnation to the problem of adult/child relationships. Pais shows how both religious and Freudian psychological teaching have rationalized abuse, how misinterpretations of the meaning of God as Father have wrongly justified abuse, and how the doctrine of God as Child, through Incarnation, can heal the inner adult/child split and lead toward true relationship with children. Highly recommended.