Christian Liturgy Spilling Out into the World: Youth as Public Theologians

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The Youth Theological Initiative is a three-week summer residential program in justice-seeking theological education. We gather youth from around the country, and around the world, in an inclusive, ecumenical Christian community to study, reflect, worship, pray, and enact our faith in the world. For more information, see www.yti.emory.edu.

All names are changed.

The concept of “protest chaplains” received new attention during the Occupy Wall Street protests, and this language was also used during the Troy Davis protests, although one can see examples of clergy attending to protesters earlier in history. Here is one description: http://protestchaplains.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html (accessed Aug. 30, 2013).

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

Smith, 75.

Smith, 57, his emphasis.

Smith, 82.

Smith, 85.

Smith, 86.

Smith, 88.

Smith, 93–103.

Smith, 104.

Smith, 115–16.

Smith, 115.

Smith, 153–4, his emphasis.

Smith, chapter 5, 155–214.

Smith, 154.

Duncan Forrester, Truthful Action: Explorations in Practical Theology (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000), 127–8.

Walter Brueggemann, The Prophet Imagination (2nd ed.) (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001), 23–9.

See Saul Williams’ video, http://youtu.be/keqAQk1YuOs; and To Write Love on Her Arms website, http://twloha.com (accessed July 30, 2013).

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Notes on contributors

Elizabeth W. Corrie

Elizabeth W. Corrie serves as assistant professor in the Practice of Youth Education and Peacebuilding and director of the Youth Theological Initiative at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.