Human Beings and Human Becomings
Departing from the Developmental Model of Youth Ministry
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The dominant approach to youth ministry in the United States is a developmental model wherein outcomes of maturity are granted normative authority. Preoccupation with development has made our attention to young people’s experience of divine action problematic if not impossible. Offering an interpretive corrective, by introducing childhood studies as an interdisciplinary partner alternative to developmental psychology, and a theological corrective by drawing on the eschatological theology of Jürgen Moltmann, I provide rationale for youth workers to recognise and participate in God’s action in the lives of young people, even those who will not progress according to standards of spiritual maturity.1
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Duffy Robbins, The Ministry of Nurture (Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties, Zondervan Publishing House, 1990), 17.
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Jim Burns and Mike DeVries, The Youth Builder (Ventura: Gospel Light, 2001), 23.
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Thomas E. Bergler, “Taming the juvenilization of American Christianity: developing youth ministry leaders who can help the church grow up.” Journal Of Youth Ministry 9, no. 1 (2010): 21.
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Nancy Going, “The way of Jesus: adolescent development as theological process.” Journal Of Youth Ministry 9, no. 2 (2011): 50.
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Donald Capps, Life Cycle Theory & Pastoral Care (Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1983), 19.
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Thomas Bergler, From Here to Maturity (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2014), 3, 8, and 25.
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Andrew Root, Bonhoeffer As Youth Worker, (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014), 7.
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see Allison James and Alan Prout, Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood (New York: The Falmer Press, 1990).
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See Ray S. Anderson, The Shape of Practical Theology (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2001), 103.
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Kenda Creasy Dean, Practicing Passion (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004), 84.
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Jürgen Moltmann, In The End – The Beginning (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004), 6–7.
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Jürgen Moltmann, Jesus Christ for Today’s World (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994) 2.
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See Richard Bauckham, The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann (New York: T & T Clark, 1995), 9.
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Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993), 103
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See Jürgen Moltmann, Experiences of God (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984), 14
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Richard Bauckham, ed., God Will Be All In All: The Eschatology of Jürgen Moltmann (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001), 163.
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Jürgen Moltmann, The Coming Of God: Christian Eschatology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), 287.
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Jürgen Moltmann, God in Creation (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), 92.
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Human Beings and Human Becomings
Departing from the Developmental Model of Youth Ministry
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The dominant approach to youth ministry in the United States is a developmental model wherein outcomes of maturity are granted normative authority. Preoccupation with development has made our attention to young people’s experience of divine action problematic if not impossible. Offering an interpretive corrective, by introducing childhood studies as an interdisciplinary partner alternative to developmental psychology, and a theological corrective by drawing on the eschatological theology of Jürgen Moltmann, I provide rationale for youth workers to recognise and participate in God’s action in the lives of young people, even those who will not progress according to standards of spiritual maturity.1
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