Children in the New Testament and its World with Dr. Amy Lindeman-Allen

Join us for this special webinar with acclaimed scholar and author Dr. Amy Lindeman Allen. 

Children in the New Testament and its World

Children, whom Jesus declares the possessors of his Kingdom in the synoptic gospel accounts, have famously been called the “nobodies” of the first-century world. While recognizing the validity of both these textual and historical claims, my research seeks to complicate the presumed dichotomy that they present. By examining the narrated lives of first-century children both in the textual and historical worlds of the synoptic gospels, I suggest a more expansive understanding of both the value and vulnerability of children in the New Testament texts and its surrounding contexts.

Amy Lindeman Allen is Indiana Christian Church Associate Professor of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has authored For Theirs is the Kingdom: Inclusion and Participation of Children in the Gospel according to Luke (Lexington/Fortress: 2019, 2023) and The Gifts They Bring: How Children in the Gospels Can Shape Inclusive Ministry (Westminster John Knox, 2023).