Liturgical Spiritual Formation Across the Generations

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Gabriel Moran, Showing How: The Act of Teaching (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997), 37. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Office of Spiritual Formation, Louisville, KY. Available at http://www.pcusa.org/spiritualformation/whatis.pdf. For resources for spiritual formation see Peter Feldmeier, The Developing Christian: Spiritual Growth through the Life Cycle (New York: Paulist Press, 1989); David F. White, Practicing Discernment with Youth: A Transformative Youth Ministry Approach (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2005); Gordon W. Lathrop, The Pastor: A Spirituality (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006); Patricia Hendricks, Hungry Souls, Holy Companions: Mentoring a New Generation of Christians (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 2006); Jim Wilhoit, Spiritual Formation As If the Church Mattered: Growing in Christ Through Community (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008); Sarah Arthur, The God-Hungry Imagination: The Art of Storytelling for Postmodern Youth Ministry (Nashville, TN: Upper Room Press, 2007); Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster, The Godbearing Life: Soul Tending for Youth Ministry (Nashville, TN: Upper Room Press, 1998). See also the Companions in Christ series from Upper Room Press; Michael J. Anthony, ed., Perspectives on Children's Spiritual Formation: Four Views (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers Academic, 2006); Catherine Stonehouse, Joining Children on the Spiritual Journey: Nurturing the Life of Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998); Mike King, Presence-Centered Youth Ministry: Guiding Students into Spiritual Formation (Downer's Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2006); Robert Keeley, Helping Our Children Grow Spiritually: How Churches Can Nurture Spiritual Development for Kids (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008); Linda Graybeal and Julia L. Roller, Connecting with God: A Spiritual Formation Guide, a Renovaré resource (San Francisco: Harper SanFrancisco, 2006). See also other Renovaré resources published under the direction of Richard Foster by Harper Collins. Marva J. Dawn, A Royal “Waste of Time”: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being the Church for the World (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999), 13. Carolyn C. Brown, You Can Preach to the Kids, Too!: Designing Sermons for Adults and Children (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1997). Moran, 51. See Eliot Eisner, “The Three Curricula All Schools Teach,” The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs, 3rd ed. (New York: Macmillan College Publishing, 1994). David Elkind, Children and Adolescents: Interpretive Essays on Jean Piaget (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), 99. Moran, 42. Barbara K. Given, Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems (Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2002). Given, 5. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ (New York: Bantam Books, 1995). Quoted in Given, 15. Given, 37. Given, 58. Given, 48. See Marianne H. Micks, The Future Present: The Phenomenon of Christian Worship (New York: Seabury, 1970); Donald Saliers, Worship as Theology: Foretaste of Glory Divine (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1994). Given, 84. Given, 79. Given, 61. Given, 82. Given, 86. Given, 107. Given, 108–9. Given, 10. In an intriguing exploration of neuroscience and Christian theology, Carol Rausch Albright and James B. Ashbrook make the claim that the very shape of human creaturehood, as understood through neuroscientific discoveries, reflects the nature of God. See Carol Rausch Albright and James B. Ashbrook, Where God Lives in the Human Brain (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2001). Given, 106, quoting David Perkins, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence (New York: Free Press, 1995), 117.