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Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church’s Obsession with Youthfulness (Ministry in a Secular Age)

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The loss or disaffiliation of young adults is a much-discussed topic in churches as of late. Many faith-formation programs center of attention on keeping the young, believing the youthful spirit will save the church. But do these programs have more to do with an obsession with youthfulness than with helping young people encounter the living God?

Questioning the seek for new or improved faith-formation programs, leading practical theologian Andrew Root offers an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulates how faith may also be formed in our secular age. He offers a theology of faith constructed from a wealthy cultural conversation, providing a deeper understanding of the phenomena of the “nones” and “moralistic therapeutic deism.” Root helps readers bear in mind why forming faith is so hard in our context and shows that what we now have lost isn’t the ability to keep people connected to our churches but an imagination for how and where God might be present in their lives. He considers what faith is and what steps we will take to move into it, exploring a Pauline concept of faith as encounter with divine action.

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