Chrysostom and Generation Z: Resilience, Identiy, and Social Justice

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Youth and Theology Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI:10.1163/24055093-11230001

Tanita Tualla Maddox

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Abstract

Generation Z (Gen Z) comprises current adolescent culture, bringing with them a generational worldview lens for topics such as: suffering, success, identify formation, and social justice. Gen Z values safety, has a heart for the outcasted, and is forming identity around successes and accomplishments. This article seeks to ground Gen Z with a piece of historical Christian faith and teaching, applying the fourth-century teachings of John Chrysostom to today’s Gen Z. Much like Chrysostom’s audience, Gen Z views suffering and hardship as punitive and to be avoided. Chrysostom’s teaching provides a fuller understanding of suffering, equipping his audience, and today’s Gen Z, with a mode for building resilience through thanksgiving. Chrysostom taught on the importance of charity, which allows Gen Z to engage their generational values for tolerance and acceptance in the Kingdom of God.

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金口和Z世代:韧性、身份和社会正义

Z世代(Gen Z)包括当前的青少年文化，带来了他们这代人的世界观，比如:痛苦、成功、身份形成和社会正义。Z世代重视安全，对被抛弃的人有同情心，并围绕成功和成就形成身份认同。本文试图将Z世代与历史上的基督教信仰和教义联系起来，将四世纪约翰·金口的教义应用于今天的Z世代。就像金口的受众一样，Z世代认为苦难和艰难是惩罚性的，应该避免。金口的教导让人们对苦难有了更全面的理解，为他的听众和今天的Z世代提供了一种通过感恩建立韧性的模式。金口堂教导慈善的重要性，这使Z世代能够在上帝的国度中融入宽容和接受的世代价值观。

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Journal of Youth and Theology Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Youth and Theology is an international peer-reviewed academic journal developed and originally published by the IASYM, the International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry, now published by Brill. The journal aims at furthering the academic study and research of youth and youth ministry, and the formal teaching and training of youth ministry. The academic efforts are rooted in the Christian theological tradition and ecumenical. The scope of the journal is to serve scholarship in the broad field of children, youth, faith, church, theology and culture. Research articles in the journal mainly have theology (both practical, systematic and biblical theology) as a core discipline. At the same time, contributions are often interdisciplinary, which implies theological reflection combined with e.g. pedagogical, sociological or psychological perspectives.