1st Edition

Embodying Youth Exploring Youth Ministry and Disability

Edited By Wesley Ellis, Michael Langford Copyright 2020
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Embodying Youth : Exploring Youth Ministry and Disability seeks to help close the gap between disability theology and youth ministry education. What is youth ministry? And who is it for? Christian youth workers and ministers in the West have been answering these questions either implicitly or explicitly for decades. The ways we answer these questions, and the ways in which we go about... Read more

1. Youth Ministry and Disability, Wesley W. Ellis and Michael D. Langford   2. The God of Difference: Disability, Youth Ministry, and the Difference Anthropology Makes, Erin Raffety  3. Diagnosing Adolescence: From Curing Adolescents to Caring for Young People, Wesley W. Ellis  4. Theological Anthropology of Youth as the Paradigm for Youth Ministry, Christian Noval  5. Abusing Youth: Theologically Understanding Youth Through Misunderstanding Disability, Michael D. Langford  6. Disabled Adolescents, Enabling Youth Ministry, Benjamin T. Conner   7. From Experience to Ethics: The Shaping Impact of Narrative on Youth Ministry and Disability, Amy E. Jacober

Biography

Wesley W. Ellis, M.Div., is the Associate Pastor of First United Methodist Church of Toms River, New Jersey, USA and a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Michael D. Langford, Ph.D., is the Associate Professor of Theology, Discipleship, and Ministry at Seattle Pacific University in Washington, USA.