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Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies Youth Ministry in the Age of Science
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Title
Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies [electronic resource] : Youth Ministry in the Age of Science / Andrew Root.
ISBN
1506446752
9781506446752
1506446744
9781506446745
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xv, 292 pages)).
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
Many things threaten the faith of youth today, but none more than science. The commitments of science and Christianity seem to be at odds science makes truth claims based on experiments and proofs, while religion asks for belief and trust. 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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 Philosophy and Religion.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2018
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
part I. (part Aly)
1. Introduction : when ministry meets science
2. When youth ministry encounters science : the story of Jared (Aly's Story)
3. When youth ministry encounters science : the story of Jared (Martin's Story)
4. When youth ministry encounters science : the story of Jared (Sasha's Story)
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
part II. (part Sasha)
11. Sasha and big and small infinity
12. Galileo and alien life : the story of Galileo Galilei
13. With a bang
14. Finely tuned
15. A rebel's birthday party
part III. (part Martin)
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.
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Electronic books.
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