Tamkang Tiong-Chheng Felloship(淡江長青團契) and Me: a Guide's Research of Faith Identity of Christian College Students

• Main Authors: Cheng, Chunping, 鄭君平
• Other Authors: 蔡怡佳
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83043332276443485580

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 宗教學系 === 101 === Abstract “Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” (長青團契) is the fellowship of Presbyterian Church in Taiwan(PCT) for campus ministry, and has responsibility to nurture, to guide, and to cultivate the faith of Christian college students. For the most sixty years, “Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” develops its own “Tióng-chheng Spirit” (長青精神), and cultivating numerous intellectual Christians named “Tióng-chheng people.” (長青人) I, as a guide, get involved in the fellowship which has special context. In my seven years full time worker’s days, I was their pastor and to live together with them. Thus, this dissertation is to observe from my perspectives, and try to know how the “Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” members build their faith identity under my guidance. However, the relationship between students and I is not only as simple and clear as worker and students, or shepherd and sheep. As a matter of fact, I am the investigator of “Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” and also the investigated of myself. The ramifications relationship between students and I affects each of us even more. Thus, with the field research of seven years guidance experience in “Tamkang Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè”(淡江長青團契), I interview with 6 former “Tamkang Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” members, the dissertation will analyze and interpret through hermeneutic phenomenology in order to ponder my faith journey of being support for students’ religious faith, to reflect with students’ journey for faith identity, and to try to portray how the Christians perform their faith in practice . The dissertation shows that the significance of all the origin for “Tamkang Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” is its “dorm life”(學舍生活). Through living together in dormitory, “Tamkang Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” develops its characteristic “Living Faith”(生活信仰). Moreover, its “being yourself”(做自己) atmosphere achieves the capacity for being with others, and even seeing the hierophany from others. However, conflicts occurs between “being yourself” of satisfying desire and the holy command “being Christian” of denying self, and the gap causes the doubts of Christianity and the struggle of faith identity, So the dissertation reveals forms of conflicts, struggles, reconciliations and irreconcilitations. At the last, “Tamkang Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” has become the “rite of passage” for those who were “Tamkang Tióng-chheng Thoân-khè” members. When they graduated and left the fellowship, they return to home church and start their career (some even involve into ecumenical movement) and start their unfinished adventures of life and faith. After the conclusion, I come back as a youth pastor, and to reflect my past guiding career and to bring up the vision to youth ministry.