Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221108541d
Dave Bland
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221114825
Erin Raffety
Communication theory reminds us that listening is always interrogative, relational, and never without politics. The articles in this collection are the first attempt to witness as listeners to what young people have shared in this research, amplifying a “youth ecclesiology” (Benjamin Conner), the prophetic ministry of young people (Justin Forbes), the importance of aesthetics in confronting dehumanization (Katherine Douglass), the disruptive call of listening itself (Michael Mather), the persistent gaps in theologizing racial reconciliation (Kermit Moss), and the provocative love of Jesus (Megan DeWald). To this witness, I further probe how it is that marginal agitation can be found deeply faithful, draw out its theological contributions, and attempt to behold, yet not coopt, that radical openness that both Peter and Paul reveal to us as so slippery, subversive, and decentering. In other words, it is critical that theologians and congregations at the center not so much “let” the margins push back, because that fetishizes them, all the while subtly maintaining the center, but adopt the confessional mode that Conner, DeWald, Douglass, Forbes, Mather, and Moss lay out, while also witnessing to a Jesus, a God, and a Spirit that prod and agitate and transgress, because this God is at the margins, too.
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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 : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736221091915
Yahya Wijaya
In terms of health issues, Christians often refer to the stories of Jesus' healings in the Gospels as an important spiritual resource. However, theological interpretations vary, depending on the hermeneutical method employed and the contextual factors considered. This article explores such approaches to the Gospels' healing narrative and relates them to the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. From the platform of practical theology, five theological approaches to the healing narrative are identified and then analyzed. The results of this study suggest that each approach has a degree of relevance that is worth developing to produce a theological contribution to ongoing mitigation and healing efforts.
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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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