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Abstract
Abstract This article describes what the International Ecumenical Youth Meeting in Beirut 2019 meant for participants from the Middle East, particularly from Lebanon and how these meanings can be theologically evaluated. Embracing, a term we borrow from Miroslav Volf’s theory, became a crucial concept to describe one of the main meanings. This is further elaborated with the concept symbolic embracement. Furthermore we explain how exploration and commitment play a role in the participation of youth. The theological evaluation leads us to the God who transcends human particularity and plurality.
期刊介绍:
The International Journal of Practical Theology is an academic journal. It is intended for practical theologians and teachers of religious education, scientists specializing in religion, and representatives of other cultural-scientific disciplines. The aim of the journal is to promote an international and interdisciplinary dialogue. The journal contains contributions on an empirically descriptive and critically constructive theory of ecclesiastical and religious practice in society. Primarily, it deals with descriptions of religion as it is practised. Religion in this context can be understood in the broad sense of the word according to which all appreciative tendencies towards an ultimate view of oneself and of the world can be described as being religious.