Beschreibung:
Christianity Today Book Award of Merit winner What haunts your youth group? So often we avoid talking about doubts and fears because we feel inadequately equipped to address them in any meaningful way. The crisis of existence can't be answered with pat Sunday school formulas or a few Bible verses, let alone another relay race. The questions our youth have are often the same ones that perplexed the great theologians, driving them to search for God in the places God didn't appear to be--places of brokenness, suffering and confusion. What if we let these questions drive our search for God too? Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean invite you to envision youth ministries full of practical theologians, addressing the deep questions of life with a wonderfully adolescent mix of idealism, cynicism and prophetic intolerance for hypocrisy. Follow them into reflection on your own practice of theology, and learn how to share that theology through rich, compassionate conversation and purposeful experience.
Christianity Today Book Award of Merit winnerWhat haunts your youth group? So often we avoid talking about doubts and fears because we feel inadequately equipped to address them in any meaningful way. The crisis of existence can't be answered with pat Sunday school formulas or a few Bible verses, let alone another relay race.The questions our youth have are often the same ones that perplexed the great theologians, driving them to search for God in the places God didn't appear to be--places of brokenness, suffering and confusion. What if we let these questions drive our search for God too?Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean invite you to envision youth ministries full of practical theologians, addressing the deep questions of life with a wonderfully adolescent mix of idealism, cynicism and prophetic intolerance for hypocrisy. Follow them into reflection on your own practice of theology, and learn how to share that theology through rich, compassionate conversation and purposeful experience.
Introduction
Part 1: A Theological Starting Point for Youth Ministry
1 Is Theologically Rigorous Youth Ministry an Oxymoron?
2 The New Rhetoric of Youth Ministry
3 Youth Ministry as an Integrative Theological Task
4 Proclaiming Salvation: The Ministry of Youth for the 21st Century Church
5 How is Theology Constructed in Ministry with Young people
Part 2: A Theological Orientation for Youth Ministry
6 Youth Ministry as Discerning Christopraxis: A Hermeneutical Model
7 Holding On to Our Kisses
8 God's Hiddenness, Suffering, and Doubt: Theological Directions for Youth Ministry
9 Ascension Deficit Disorder: Youth Ministry as a Laboratory for Hope
10 Reflection on Divine and Human Action as the Core of Youth Ministry: A Practical Theological Perspective
Part Three- A Theological Dialogue with the Practice of Youth Ministry
11 The Eschatological Significance of Summer Camp
12 The Youth Ministry Mission Trip as Global Tourism: Are We OK With This?
13 The Confirmation Teacher/Mentor as Co-Doubter: Doubt as the Curriculum for Confirmation
14 The Outdoor Ministry Trip and the Heidelberg Disputation: What Are We Doing in These Mountains?
15 What the Hell is Sin and How Do I Talk about it with Young People?
16 Is Jesus Magic? Healing and the Cross in the Context of Youth Ministry
