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Rev. Gregory Jensen
The Rev. Gregory Jensen is a social scientist specializing in religion and personality theory and a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. (Orthodox Church in America). He blogs for the
Acton Institute
,
Koinonia
and the
American Orthodox Institute
.
Church
Overcoming the Merely Therapeutic
In
Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
(2005), researchers Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton argue that for many young adults in America, the spiritual life is understood in moralistic terms. But where orthodox (and Orthodox) Christianity focus on the necessity of "repentance from sin, of keeping the Sabbath, of living as a servant of a sovereign divine, of steadfastly saying one's prayers …" -- many teenagers don’t see it that way...
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