“Confessionality” in Youth Ministry
This article, departing from the ambition of IASYM to be “completely ecumenical,” discusses the importance of “confessionality” in youth ministry and youth ministry research. As a pre-text to analyzing how confessional tradition and context plays out in some key youth ministry publications, the auth...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2011
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Journal of youth and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 10, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 48-64 |
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| Summary: | This article, departing from the ambition of IASYM to be “completely ecumenical,” discusses the importance of “confessionality” in youth ministry and youth ministry research. As a pre-text to analyzing how confessional tradition and context plays out in some key youth ministry publications, the author points out how youth ministry historically emerged within a mission paradigm where the urge to guard and reproduce confessional identity was crucial. Following this analysis, the article sets out to develop an ecumenical understanding of “confessionality,” rooted in the ancient question “what do Christians do?” The author, emphasizing that the crux of Christian identity is worship, concludes that “confessionality” in the context of youth ministry from this perspective is confessional, catholic, and missional. Therefore, even in the IASYM, being “completely ecumenical” also involves being “confessional” in a certain sense. |
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| ISSN: | 2405-5093 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of youth and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/24055093-90000039 |