Overview

Science may be the biggest threat to teenage faith today, but Andrew Root demonstrates that, in fact, the two are not incompatible. Root, a renowned expert on adolescent spirituality, shows how science overstates its claims on truth, while faith often understates its own claims. Both faith and science frame the experience and reality of teenagers, and both have something valuable to offer as adolescents develop. Drawing on a fictional account of a youth pastor and the various students he encounters, Root paints a compelling picture of how faith can flourish, even in our scientific age.

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Author:   Andrew Root
Publisher:   Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Imprint:   Fortress Press,U.S.
ISBN:  

9781506446745

ISBN 10:   1506446744
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   01 January 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: When Ministry Meets Science 2. When Youth Ministry Encounters Science: The Story of Jared (Part Aly) 3. When Youth Ministry Encounters Science: The Story of Jared (Part Martin) 4. When Youth Ministry Encounters Science: The Story of Jared (Part Sasha) 5. Is Faith for Immature Babies? 6. “Science,” Adolescence, and Growing up 7. The Faith of the Child as the Welcoming of the Scientific 8. Relating Faith and the Scientific, Issue One: Science Doesn’t Say Anything 9. Relating Faith and the Scientific, Issue Two: How This Relating Is Done 10. Finding Personhood: The Face 11. Sasha and Big and Small Infinites 12. Galileo and Alien Life: The Story of Galileo Galilei 13. With a Bang 14. Finely Tuned 15. A Rebel’s Birthday Party 16. Martin and the Coming Mass Extinction 17. When the Rocks Speak 18. A Clergyman’s Dangerous Ideas: The Story of Darwin 19. Darwin’s First Dangerous Idea 20. Darwin’s Second Dangerous Idea and All Those Other Hominids 21. The Bible, the Ministers, and the End Epilogue

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Andrew Root teaches youth and family ministry at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He’s the author of many books, including Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry and The Grace of Dogs. Root is an internationally acclaimed speaker on adolescence and spirituality. He lives in Saint Paul with his wife, kids, and dog.

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