Voted one of Christianity Today's 1998 Books of the Year!All kinds of important choices are made during the college years. Young men and women explore what they really believe about the nature of the world and the purpose of life. They choose their work. They build friendships or even choose to marry. They develop goals and adopt habits that may very well last a lifetime.Yet late modernity is not a welcome environment for the emotional, intellectual and spiritual formation that occurs during these critical years. Society is increasingly fragmented. And the educational system itself, fragmented and specialized, may disintegrate more than it integrates.Professors, campus ministers, parents, youth pastors and others who are concerned with college students face an immense challenge in these days. How do they help Christian students, during one of the most eventful and intense periods of life, learn to connect what they believe about the world with how they live in it?Drawing on the history of ideas, ethics, sociology and a host of examples from contemporary popular culture, Steven Garber vigorously engages just that question. His book, The Fabric of Faithfulness, is must reading for all those who work on campuses and care about today's students.
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thought-provoking book on an important topic,
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As both a person who is wrestling with how to live faithfully and with integrity -- and someone wanting to help college students to do the same--I found Garber's book a rewarding read. His identification of the absolute need for true and deep convictions, mentors whose characters embody these convictions, and life in a community of others wanting to live out these convictions have given me a good starting point in my current thinking on how to knit together thought and action. Garber could have made his book more accessible if he had given more practical ways in which his excellent material could be addressed to average undergraduate students, who on the whole, are not able to absorb Garber's theoretical meditations. Perhaps something for the next edition!
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Steve Garber does an amazing job of asking important questions that are on the minds and hearts of college students and people in their 20's. Garber does not cower or avoid the most difficult questions. Much like Francis Schaeffer before him, Garber gives honest answers to honest questions.It is a great read, and will force the reader to look at themselves and the world around them. The questions tackled in this book have been avoided by most for too long! I cannot over recomend this book, it is terrific!
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Faith for high school and college students,
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This would be good for those who are this age or woring with kids of this age. I did however find it too much filler.
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