Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221108541b
Meredith E. Hoxie Schol
to have an answer. I believe it lies in the individual’s decision to follow the truth’s challenging call like St. Francis who radically transformed his time and centuries to come through his own conversion. We need sanctity, Weil writes, as desperately as a plague-ridden city needs a doctor. Sanctity embodies and radiates the absolute good, giving people a taste of it like no theoretical discourse will ever do.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221108541d
Dave Bland
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221112009
K. Douglass
Using the theological anthropology of Karl Barth, this article analyzes two congregationally based ministries in Florida, one focused on LGBTQ+ youth and the second focused on ministry with youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Both of these congregations exemplify the mutuality of relationships that Barth claims are present in truly human relationships—ones that do not dehumanize or oppress the other, but rather, delight in them. This happens through the theater ministry of one congregation and the “Red Carpet Affair” in the other. Dolores Williams’s doctrine of sin, which claims sin as invisibilizing and systemic, explains the problematic dynamics of marginalization and proposes the solution—somebodiness, an affirmation of youth as they participate in relationships of mutuality.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221108541c
R. Cathey
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221108541f
Jason D. Whitt
through a study of sleep science in adolescence. But Stucky’s theological vision for rest is not merely pragmatic. It is not a vision of rest for the sake of revitalization. Indeed, for Stucky, rest is not for the sake of work; work is for the sake of rest—and it is in rest that we discover the deepest truth of existence itself: God loves the world. If there is a weakness in Stucky’s argument, it is a somewhat ironic one. Stucky, the director of the Farminary at Princeton Theological Seminary and a farmer who is invested in small-scale regenerative agriculture, does somewhat neglect the deeper ecological implication of sabbath rest for his theology. Perhaps as a symptom of relying more heavily on Barth than Moltmann (although he is deeply informed by both) Stucky allows sabbath to linger in the sphere of the individual and only a careful reader will infer the corporate and ecological implications of this contribution. The reader will be inclined, however, to forgive any shortcomings of this book because its successes in offering a theological corrective to some of the church’s most imbedded prejudices are more profound and compelling than any of its shortcomings. The argument is clear and well executed. I cannot overstate the contribution this book makes to youth ministry nor the timeliness of this work. The reader who is willing to embrace a theology that is counterintuitive in a culture of achievement and productivity will delight in the consolation this book offers. This is not a run-of-the-mill youth ministry book to give tips and tricks. This book promises to inform the very shape of your theology.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221112017
Benjamin T. Conner
The youth involved in the Missing Voices Project research have intuited and drawn upon some of the central theological themes from disability theology. These youth bear witness to a nascent and youthful theology of disability along with elements of an inclusive, activist ecclesiology.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-17DOI: 10.1177/00405736221089395c
Dorothy A. Lee
duals and communities toward God’s intention of “flourishing for every other life and all creation” (172). No researcher in pastoral and practical theology addressing concerns of emotions will ignore this text, nor should we wish to. McClure has gifted readers not only with an erudite perspective on emotions in human flourishing, unique in our field’s literature for its comprehensive nature, but she has also given readers over 140 pages of endnotes and citations that will point future researchers in myriad directions helpful to our own work. If there is a limitation to this text, it is that it leaves readers wanting further guidance from McClure in incorporating her theory on emotions’ role in flourishing into practices of care, counseling, ethics, ministry, and community development. Perhaps this will emerge in future work. Until then, it will be the reader’s good work to construct praxis upon McClure’s theoretical foundations.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-17DOI: 10.1177/00405736221091917
P. Moser
Various New Testament writings assume an important role for hope in God. The role of eschatology in those writings stems from a role for hope regarding what God will accomplish by way of redemption. The apostle Paul goes further to identify a widely neglected evidential ground for hope in God. This ground is in divine agapē toward humans in their experience, and it anchors, as supporting evidence, not only human hope in God but also divine promises for humans. In Paul's view, then, divine epiphany and divine promise belong together as constituents of grounded human hope in God. His view provides a needed corrective to Jürgen Moltmann's influential but unduly sharp contrast, in Theology of Hope and elsewhere, between a God of epiphany and a God of promise. It offers an important kind of experience-grounded hope in God neglected by Moltmann and others.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-17DOI: 10.1177/00405736221089395g
Matthew J. Thomas
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Pub Date : 2022-06-17DOI: 10.1177/00405736221091910
M. Robb
In the profession of ministry what do we intend to do and how do we do it? Dallas Willard’s conviction was that the ministry’s aim is the transformation of persons. In the last 30 years of his life, Willard spent many hours in many settings and countries, teaching vocational ministers on the philosophy of ministry. In 1999’s The Divine Conspiracy, he famously advocated for the development of curricula of Christlikeness for Western churches which, presumably, were devoid of them. Without a clear understanding of Willard’s theology of God and the soul, his call to developing a curriculum of Christlikeness is apt to sound like crafting an experientialist discipleship program with a built-in multiplication scheme and a polished presentation. One of the realities that mitigates against such programs’ success, taught Willard, is the importance of the minister’s mind, heart, and body to the transformational process of others. Another is the incredible value of another person’s will within God’s eternal purposes. A third reality is the uncircumventable priority of the mind in human personality. Most importantly, a minister, according to Willard, must serve out of an abundance of grace, out of the availability of the kingdom of God to them and through them. Therefore, ministry’s aim of transformation requires the presence, above all, of teachers of Christlikeness, of the sort that Dallas Willard himself aimed to be.
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