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Exploding stars, dead dinosaurs, and zombies : youth ministry in the age of science /

Science may be the biggest threat to teenage faith today, 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 scien...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Root, Andrew, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, 2018.
Series:Science for Youth Ministry.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. (Part Aly). Introduction: when ministry meets science
  • When youth ministry encounters science: the story of Jared (Aly's story)
  • When youth ministry encounters science: the story of Jared (Martin's story)
  • When youth ministry encounters science: the story of Jared (Sasha's story)
  • Is faith for immature babies?
  • "Science," adolescence, and growing up
  • The faith of the child as the welcoming of the scientific
  • Relating faith and the scientific, issue one: SCIENCE doesn't say anything
  • Relating faith and the scientific, issue two: how this relating is done
  • Finding personhood: the face
  • Part II. (Part Sasha). Sasha and big and small infinity
  • Galileo and alien life: the story of Galileo Galilei
  • With a bang
  • Finely tuned
  • A rebel's birthday party
  • Part III. (Part Martin). Martin and the coming mass extinction
  • When the rocks speak
  • A clergyman's dangerous ideas: the story of Darwin
  • Darwin's first dangerous idea
  • Darwin's second dangerous idea and all those other hominids
  • The Bible, the ministers, and the end.