Scholars dispute whether a four-year-old could genuinely experience religious conversion

Evidence

Some contemporary scholars — including specifically the substantive children’s-religion scholarly literature — substantively question the substantive psychological reality of a four-year-old’s reported substantive theological-affective transformation. Other contemporary scholars — including specifically the substantive Edwards-scholarly community — substantively defend the substantive reliability of Edwards’s careful documentary practice and substantively affirm the substantive possibility of substantive child religious-conversion experience under the substantive operational conditions that the Northampton-congregational pedagogical framework produced. — , The Rod and the Child, 3158

Categorization

• QUESTION: What evidence could adjudicate child-conversion claims — developmental psychology thresholds versus theological belief in early grace? Worth chasing.
• XREF: connects to: Children have not independently formed their parents’ religious convictions. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9369

Related

• Children have not independently formed their parents’ religious convictions. (similarity 0.83)
• Children adopt beliefs backed by adults’ credible displays of devotion. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Children have not independently formed their parents’ religious convictions. #complicates (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 9369