The Domostroi is the harshest child-correction text in Eastern Christianity

Evidence

Second: the Russian Orthodox Domostroi is the most operationally severe text in the Eastern Christian pedagogical tradition. It engages the Proverbs 23:13–14 framework and reproduces the severity that the contemporaneous Western Reformation-era pedagogical apparatus operationalized. — , The Rod and the Child, 3359

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Eastern patristic pedagogy prescribed gentler, more specific correction than Western doctrine — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3326; Russia’s Domostroi prescribed harsher beating than earlier Greek patristic practice — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3343

Related

• Russia’s Domostroi prescribed harsher beating than earlier Greek patristic practice (similarity 0.96)
• Eastern patristic pedagogy prescribed gentler, more specific correction than Western doctrine (similarity 0.87)
• Christian pedagogical cruelty was doctrinally contingent, not theologically fixed (similarity 0.80)
• Surviving Greek school exercises show no evidence of corporal punishment in the classroom (similarity 0.79)