Pub Date : 2024-06-10DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10065
Wesley W. Ellis
This article diagnoses the difficulty of prayer for young people inhabiting a secular society and offers the beginnings of a theology of prayer for this context. For young people in the United States, our secular age is defined by immanence, excessive positivity, and dynamic stabilization that constitute anxiety as a primary motivator that leads to burnout and exhaustion. Prayer as communion with God offers a corrective that can relieve anxiety and offer renewal. For this, prayer must not be thought primarily as a human action, but a divine action. In prayer, we do not grasp God, we are grasped by God. As such, prayer is a grace young people need, and its teaching must become the primary pastoral vocation in a secular age.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10064
Andreas Bjørntvedt
This study examines the establishment of Christian faith amongst Norwegians aged 30–40, with focus on the impact and nature of early religious influences. Employing an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, the research synthesizes quantitative data from 585 participants, complemented by qualitative follow-ups with 10 respondents from the initial cohort. The tripartite investigation probes into the dynamics of Christian faith formation in this demographic. It particularly scrutinizes the synergy between personal relationships and engagement in Christian practices. The findings suggest a composite of activities that collectively underscore their significance. While youth ministry and parental influence during adolescence play notable roles, the qualities embodied in personal relationships – characterized by warmth, trustworthiness, and integrity – may be more crucial than the structural aspects of the relationships themselves. These insights contest conventional views of predominant influences on faith formation and religious acculturation, underscoring the salience of authentic interpersonal connections in navigating one’s spiritual trajectory.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10063
Patrik C. Höring
Young people are traditionally seen as the future of church and society, as “agents of change.”1 In Europe one might be reminded of the fundamental change during the late 1960s, when mainly students formed demonstrations induced by the Vietnam war and the downsides of the bourgeois structures of society during the post ww ii-period. These experiences formed an image of youth that grounded research in sociology, psychology, and pedagogy for a long period of time and still seem to influence actual thinking and talking about youth. But is this view still appropriate? Are young people of today still “agents of change”? In the following, this image shall be contrasted with recent findings from Germany which indicate a change, a possible paradigm shift, regarding political interest, relations between generations and finally the role of youth ministry as a possible companion for young people in the middle of a changing society – and even the entire world – facing fundamental tasks.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10062
Robert Feduccia
Pope Francis has called for a “new kind of politics” and has called for this current generation of young people to be the lead agents in forming a new future. This article considers the current fragmentation between the professed beliefs and the expressed practices of this young generation and proposes a liturgical and eucharistic theology that can bring unity to this fragmentation. It draws on insights from Pauline theology, the writings of the late Edward Farley, the practices of Cyril of Jerusalem, and from the prayers found in the Roman Missal itself. It concludes with a guide for integrating participation in the liturgy and the actions needed for a new kind of politics.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10060
Gareth Crispin
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Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10059
Chris D. Clements
Abstract Young people in late adolescence or emerging adulthood may re-examine their childhood Christian faith. Christian commitments in a pluralistic context can come to be regarded as one possible set of commitments among many options. Articulating clear claims about Christianity will be part of an approach to the faith nurture of young people. Yet Christian faith is also, fundamentally, an act of hope in Christ. A practice of hope, specifically among those beginning to question Christian commitments, can be the activity of lament. The Christian practice of lament addresses God amid the sorrows and confusions of this world. Christian lament is offered to God in the hope that he might respond. Ministering persons may participate in lament with young people, bringing to bear their own sense of Christian hope, and inviting young people to choose this hope as well.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10057
Oliver O. Ward
This paper argues that to help adolescents respond to Jesus’ call to pick up their cross and follow him, the contemporary Pentecostal/Charismatic practice of prophecy/revelatory experience must be reimagined and framed within the ministry of Christ. Without this Christocentric framework these experiences are reduced to immediate therapeutic experiences of individual flourishing and are not sufficient to redefine the adolescent’s past and offer direction for a future developing faith identity. Synthesis of Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination, with adolescent identity formation and critique of the contemporary Pentecostal practice of prophecy highlights implications for realigned practice in order to foster the confidence in adolescent believers to form counter cultural identities in light of the Coming Kingdom.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10055
E. Andangsari, Pelita H. Surbakti, Pison Sinambela
Despite at the peak level of strength and power, young adults are also prone to experience life crises. Hence, it’s crucial for churches to cultivate reinforcement approach to encourage and provide emotional support for young adults who experiencing life crisis. Though not specifically addressed for young adults, Jesus, in the Gospel of Matthew demonstrated the community service for people dealing with crisis. One notable pastoral approach carried out by Jesus in his service is utilization of “past experience” known as “nostalgia” in psychological studies. In Matthew, Jesus adhered to 2 types of nostalgia ‒ personal (Matt. 18:2) and historical (Matt. 22:32) nostalgia. This empirical research conducted on 103 young adults of hkbp Cibubur, East Jakarta. The study aimed to test hypothesis on whether nostalgia can predict hope for the future, which generates motivation, strength and creativity in the midst of life crisis. The result suggested that nostalgia may predict hope on people whose dealing with life crisis [R2 = 0.21; F (27.08, 1), p < 0.001].
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10047
S. Amenyedzi
The Afrocentric-Youth Paradigm proposes a research methodology or a model for doing African youth research. Afrocentrism highlights that African research is done by African people through the actual African lens and approached from African cultural perspectives. This means that the lived cultural experiences of the African people are imperative in producing a more reliable and credible research output. On the other hand, it is normal for young people in Africa to experience discrimination and exclusion from major decision making and activities due to age. Most African cultures value the aged above young people with the assumption that they are inexperienced and therefore do not have much to offer. It is in this light that I propose that African cultures need to be interrogated holistically and thoroughly when researching on young people. The Afrocentric-Youth Paradigm is a proposed research methodology that provides specific questions that need to be addressed in the culture while doing African youth research.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/24055093-11230001
Tanita Tualla Maddox
Generation Z (Gen Z) comprises current adolescent culture, bringing with them a generational worldview lens for topics such as: suffering, success, identify formation, and social justice. Gen Z values safety, has a heart for the outcasted, and is forming identity around successes and accomplishments. This article seeks to ground Gen Z with a piece of historical Christian faith and teaching, applying the fourth-century teachings of John Chrysostom to today’s Gen Z. Much like Chrysostom’s audience, Gen Z views suffering and hardship as punitive and to be avoided. Chrysostom’s teaching provides a fuller understanding of suffering, equipping his audience, and today’s Gen Z, with a mode for building resilience through thanksgiving. Chrysostom taught on the importance of charity, which allows Gen Z to engage their generational values for tolerance and acceptance in the Kingdom of God.
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