Christian Nurture

Name: Christian Nurture
Author: Horace Bushnell

Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) was an American Congregational minister and theologian. During pastorates in Hartford, Connecticut, he became one of the most influential religious thinkers of nineteenth-century America. His Christian Nurture argued that children of believers should grow up never knowing themselves to be anything but Christians, while his sermons and theological works sought fresh statements of faith for a changing age.

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First published: 1847
Category: Holiness
Length: 110k words · about 7 hours
Chapters: 19
Modernized version: In the reader: the Original, the Modernized text in present-day English, or both side by side. On average, the Modernized text keeps about 90% of the original wording.
Narration: 🎧 Kore · American English

About this book

Horace Bushnell's influential book on the religious upbringing of children, first published in 1847. Bushnell argues that a child of Christian parents should grow up never remembering a time when he did not know himself to be a Christian, nurtured from infancy by the faith of the home. A landmark in American thinking about family religion and Christian education.