Transforming the Spiritual Storehouse
The Christian camp experience has tremendous potential for faith formation and spiritual transformation. The confirmation camp program in Finland offers important lessons to the international community about camp’s role in perpetuating current church models and its potential to transform the church....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
2015
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| In: |
Journal of youth and theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 172-190 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia RF Christian education; catechetics RG Pastoral care |
| Further subjects: | B
Camp
Finland
Christian education
confirmation
outdoor ministry
portraiture
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The Christian camp experience has tremendous potential for faith formation and spiritual transformation. The confirmation camp program in Finland offers important lessons to the international community about camp’s role in perpetuating current church models and its potential to transform the church. This article builds on the rich quantitative findings of confirmation camp in Finland, offering new qualitative data from a foreign perspective seeking to understand, appreciate, and characterise the Finnish camp experience in order to benefit the church in Finland and Christian camping throughout the world. |
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| ISSN: | 2405-5093 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of youth and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/24055093-01402004 |