Faith Formation in a Secular Age – Responding to the Church`s Obsession with Youthfulness
Regular price
€26.50
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Andrew Root
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Andrew Root
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HRC
Category=HRCC
Category=HRCM
Category=HRCX4
Category=QRM
Category=QRMB
Category=QRVG
Category=QRVS3
change
charles taylor
christian
christian social issues
christianity and culture
church
church growth
church leadership
church ministry
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
development
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
faith
faith and culture
faith formation
guide
handbook
Language_English
manual
ministers
ministry
moral therapeutic deism
nones
PA=Available
pastor resources
pastors
practical theology
preaching
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
religious
revitalization
secular
secular age
secularism
softlaunch
spiritual
spiritual formation
strategies
theology
youth
youth ministry
Product details
- ISBN 9780801098468
- Weight: 344g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A New Vision for Faith Formation in a Secular Age
The loss or disaffiliation of young adults is a much-discussed topic in churches today. Many faith-formation programs focus on keeping the young, believing the youthful spirit will save the church. But do these programs have more to do with an obsession with youthfulness than with helping young people encounter the living God?
Leading practical theologian Andrew Root offers an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulates how faith can be formed in our secular age, exploring
● a theology of faith constructed from a rich cultural conversation
● a deeper understanding of the phenomena of the "nones" and "moralistic therapeutic deism"
● the reasons why forming faith is so hard in our context
● our loss of an imagination for how and where God could be present in our lives
● steps we can take to move into faith and apply a Pauline concept of faith as encounter with divine action
The loss or disaffiliation of young adults is a much-discussed topic in churches today. Many faith-formation programs focus on keeping the young, believing the youthful spirit will save the church. But do these programs have more to do with an obsession with youthfulness than with helping young people encounter the living God?
Leading practical theologian Andrew Root offers an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulates how faith can be formed in our secular age, exploring
● a theology of faith constructed from a rich cultural conversation
● a deeper understanding of the phenomena of the "nones" and "moralistic therapeutic deism"
● the reasons why forming faith is so hard in our context
● our loss of an imagination for how and where God could be present in our lives
● steps we can take to move into faith and apply a Pauline concept of faith as encounter with divine action
Andrew Root (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has authored numerous books, including Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker, The Children of Divorce, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, and Relationships Unfiltered, and coauthored (with Kenda Creasy Dean) The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.
