Almost Christian —— What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church

----- 几乎基督教：告诉美国教会我们青少年信仰是什么

ISBN: 9780195314847 出版年：2010 页码：265 Creasy Dean, Kenda Oxford University Press

The National Study of Youth and Religion asserts that, instead of consequential faith, most American teenagers practice "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism" - a superficial, low-commitment, self-serving spirituality that seems to characterize many American churches. Dean believes that churches must recover a "missional mindset"-the conviction that "we are not here for ourselves"-and that consequential faith begins by helping teenagers, parents, and congregations reclaim de-centering practices like translation, testimony, and spiritual "detachment" (what the mystics called the ability to focus on God and others instead of ourselves). Drawing on a major national study, this volume argues that the Church has failed to instill genuine religious passion in American teenagers.