A01=Gregory Baker
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apophatic spirituality
Author_Gregory Baker
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campus ministry
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deconversion studies
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masculinities
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men’s spirituality
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practical theology
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religious disaffiliation
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theology of ministry
young adult ministry
Product details
- ISBN 9781498590648
- Weight: 503g
- Dimensions: 161 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book explores the shifting role of the minister in light of the experiences of college men in the United States. Young men frequently struggle to know what it means to be a man and doubt that churches can supply the meaning and direction for which they hunger. These men are not necessarily lost, but they do need a certain kind of spiritual accompaniment that is likely to push many ministers outside of postures and practices with which they have grown comfortable. This interdisciplinary work draws together feminist and masculinist theories, contemporary practices in campus ministry, recent literature on religious deconversion and individual interviews with college men in order to argue for new ways amid the practice of ministry. This work invites ministers to become more apophatic—to grow comfortable with moving away from clarity and to adopt ungrasping postures of ministry that attend to the unfolding theology of the individual. This repositions campus ministers to support young adults from a range of spiritual commitments. Disaffiliating Ministry invites ministers to eliminate wasteful ministerial habits, to explore new ministry practices and to enjoy the freedom of accompanying young men in processes of leaving behind attitudes and actions that cease to be life giving while deepening in faith, courage and responsibility for others.
Gregory Baker is vice president for mission and adjunct instructor of Catholic studies at Mercyhurst University and has been a youth and young adult minister in parish, diocesan, and college campus settings for more than two decades.
