Liturgy and Faith Formation: Reimagining a Partnership for the Sake of Youth

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Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (New York: Oxford, 2005), 68.

Smith and Denton, 27, 267.

Smith and Denton, 162–171.

Charles R. Foster, From Generation to Generation: The Adaptive Challenge of Mainline Protestant Education in Forming Faith (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012). See especially the introduction and chapter 2. Foster is no Cassandra. His book offers hope and multiple constructive remedies in response to the current situation.

Andrew Root, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2007), 42ff. See also chapter 3.

See, for example, www.taize.fr/en_article6431.html (accessed Aug. 2, 2013).

James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009), 75.

Smith, 89–131.

Don E. Saliers, The Soul in Paraphrase: Prayer and the Religious Affections (Cleveland, OH: Order of Saint Luke Publications, 1991).

David A. Hogue, Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past: Story, Ritual, and the Human Brain (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2003), see especially chapter 2.

Hogue, see chapters 3 and 4.

Gordon Lathrop, Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1993), 24.

Jerome W. Berryman, Godly Play: An Imaginative Approach to Religious Education (San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), 165.

Thomas M. Finn, Early Christian Baptism and the Catechumenate: West and East Syria (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992), 155. For the full range of Ephrem's insights into chrism see all of hymn seven.

Aidan Kavanagh, The Shape of Baptism: The Rites of Christian Initiation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1978), 31.

A. Roger Gobbel, Gertrude G. Gobbel, and Thomas E. Ridenhour, Sr., Helping Youth Interpret the Bible: A Teaching Resource (Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, 1984), 92–93.

Anne S. Wimberly, Soul Stories: African American Christian Education (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press).

Clyde Edgerton, Walking Across Egypt (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1987).

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Fred P. Edie

Fred P. Edie is associate professor for the Practice of Christian Education at Duke Divinity School. He is the founding director of Duke's Youth Academy for Christian Formation.