Reframing the Self(ie)
Based on developmental psychology, youth ministry has often regarded the adolescent self in terms of a search for identity. The selfie demonstrates this psychosocial attempt to discover one’s self and receive affirmation for it. While developmental theory is helpful and relevant for youth ministry,...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of youth and theology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 16, Heft: 1, Seiten: 25-45 |
| RelBib Classification: | AE Religionspsychologie CB Christliche Existenz; Spiritualität RA Praktische Theologie RF Christliche Religionspädagogik; Katechetik RG Seelsorge |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Adolescence
Loder
Merton
psychosocial development
self
selfie
transformation
youth ministry
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| Zusammenfassung: | Based on developmental psychology, youth ministry has often regarded the adolescent self in terms of a search for identity. The selfie demonstrates this psychosocial attempt to discover one’s self and receive affirmation for it. While developmental theory is helpful and relevant for youth ministry, theology offers a more desirable foundation on which to build youth ministry practices. Thomas Merton’s theological understanding of the self addresses this dilemma, whereby the self finds the adolescent. This perspective can help us reframe youth ministry’s assumptions based on developmental psychology, which regard the adolescent’s task as self-discovery. As James Loder describes, the inner self emerges through God’s transformation. This is an issue of reordering of theology and psychology. For adolescents to position themselves to receive this inner transformation, Christian ministry with young people can effectively facilitate a posture of prayer whereby God can affect the transformation of the deepest sense of the self. |
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| ISSN: | 2405-5093 |
| Enthält: | In: Journal of youth and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/24055093-01601003 |