Missions Resources - Bibliography
Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X
Authors: Beaudoin, Tom
ISBN: 0-7879-3882-3
Publisher: San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998
Summary: Virtual Faith is an important book, if not always a correct book. Beaudoin's stated purpose, however, is to open the dialogue on the spiritual quest of this generation's college students, rather than to lay down the law.
Beaudoin himself represents the very group he writes about: He is a Charismatic Catholic who has bones to pick with Rome, and who is one of the first ages of kids to become adults in a world that has "always" been on a New Age spiritual quest.
He correctly assesses this generation's drive for sincerity and doing whatever you do whole-heartedly. We are an age of youths who have taken some of the positive elements of the relativism so characteristic of the so-called Generation X that preceded us, and combined them with a new hope in the truth out there, for a sense of humility in our spiritual searches (and a fierce anger at hypocrisy).
On the other hand, I think he incorrectly puts too much emphasis on MTV as the primary world view shaper of this generation.
Overall, however, Virtual Faith is not a book to miss, especially if cultural observation is an area of interest for you.
-Paul Grant
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