Acknowledgements
Introduction (Kenda Creasy Dean)
Part 1: A Theological Starting Point for Youth
Ministry
What Does Youth Ministry Have to Do with Theology?
1 The New Rhetoric of Youth Ministry
Kenda Creasy Dean
2 God Is a Minister
Youth Ministry as Fundamentally Theological
Andrew Root
3 Youth Ministry as an Integrative Theological Task
Toward a Representative Method
Andrew Root
4 Proclaiming Salvation
The Ministry of Youth for the 21st Century Church
Kenda Creasy Dean
5 Walking into the Crisis of Reality
How Theology Is Constructed
6 Youth Ministry as Discerning Christopraxis
A Hermeneutical Model
Andrew Root
7 God's Hiddenness, Suffering, and Doubt
Andrew Root
Part 2: Theology Enacted
Exploring Youth Ministry Practice
8 Is Jesus Magic?
Healing and the Cross in the Context of Youth Ministry
Andrew Root
9 Talking About Sin with Young People
Andrew Root
10 Holding On to Our Kisses
The Hormonal Theology of Adolescence
Kenda Creasy Dean
11 The Eschatological Significance of Summer Camp
Kenda Creasy Dean
12 What Are We Doing in These Mountains?
The Outdoor Trip and the Theology of the Cross
Andrew Root
13 The Mission Trip as Global Tourism
Are We OK With This?
Andrew Root
14 Doubt and Confirmation
The Mentor as Co-Doubter
Andrew Root
15 Ascension Deficit Disorder
Youth Ministry as a Laboratory for Hope
Kenda Creasy Dean
Postscript: Reflecting on Method---
Youth Ministry as Practical Theology
(Andrew Root with Blair D. Bertrand)
Notes
Andrew Root is in the Baalson Olson Chair as associate professor of youth and family ministry at Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota). He is the author of several books, including Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry. Kenda Creasy Dean is professor of youth, church and culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry. She is the author of several books, including Practicing Passion, The God-Bearing Life and Almost Christian.
"Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean invite you to envision youth ministries full of practical theologians, addressing the deep questions of life with a wonderfully adolescent mix of idealism, cynicism, and prophetic intolerance for hypocrisy."
--Youth Discipleship Leadership, Summer 2012"It is time to turn to theological substance and faith formation. This book talks about why this is true, and more important, it demonstrates how it may be done. The closing postscript on youth ministry as practical theology is worth the price of admission."
--The Christian Century, October 17, 2012"Root and Dean invite readers to envision youth ministries full of practical theologians, addressing the deep questions of life with a wonderfully adolescent mix of idealism, cynicism, and prophetic intolerance for hypocrisy."
--YouthWorker Journal, July/August 2011"This book has much to commend itself. It both offers fresh approaches to issues the church has thought about often, and addresses new areas about which the church has not thought enough. . . . Having read this book and absorbed the depth and vision the authors present, I find myself hopeful. . . . If youth ministry is the research and development department to the church, then this product is ready to launch for the sake of the world."
--Philip L. Ruge-Jones, Word World, 33/3, Summer 2013 |
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