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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: Getting Clear on What You (Really) Believe | |
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A Prophetic Challenge to Academic Theology | |
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Toward the Rebirth of Theology | |
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Theology for an Age of Transition | |
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Things Have Changed, or "Toto, We're Not in Kansas Any More" | |
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Religion in America Fifty Years Ago | |
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The '60s and 70s | |
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American Religion in the Early Twenty-First Century | |
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Do Christians Have to Hate Change? | |
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Why the Answers Must Be Theological (and What That Means) | |
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A Theology Is a World-and-Life-View | |
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Sources for Christian World-and-Life-Views | |
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Postmodernity Makes Theologians of Us All | |
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What Were the Assumptions of "Modernity?" | |
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Transition to a Postmodern World | |
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Postmodern Believing | |
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Three Last Gasps of Late Modernity | |
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Doubt Is Not Sin | |
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Return to a Thinking Faith | |
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Belonging, Behaving, Believing | |
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Always Already on the Way | |
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"Everything Must Change" | |
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Parallels with the Fall of Rome | |
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Changes in the Structure of Congregations | |
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Changes in the Structure of Denominations | |
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Managing Change | |
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An Urgent Call lo Church Leaders | |
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Theologies That Can Transform the Church | |
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Don't Give Up on the Church! | |
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Transformative Theologies | |
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Two Warring Camps | |
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Returning to "Big Tent" Christianity | |
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Don't Just Talk about It; Do It! | |
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Learning from Experience | |
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Learning to Find Your Theological Voice | |
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Make Your Beliefs Conscious | |
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Examples to Get You Started | |
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The Seven Core Christian Questions | |
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Building Church Programs from Your Theology Outward | |
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Imagine Martin Luther in the Twenty-First Century | |
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Theology as Telling the Story | |
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Telling Theological Stories at the Personal Level | |
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Telling Theological Stories at the Congregational Level-and Beyond | |
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Theologies in Action | |
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Put Your Thought Where Your Heart Is | |
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Try This Experiment in Your Local Church | |
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff | |
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Viewing Theologies as Complementary, Not Mutually Exclusive | |
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A Theology of Self-Emptying for the Church | |
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The Christ Hymn in Philippians 2 | |
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Living the Christ Hymn | |
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Recognizing the Faces of Power and Prejudice | |
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Self-Emptying in Christian Congregations | |
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Uniting Proclamation with Self-Emptying | |
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Self-Emptying Theologies | |
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Theologies That Can Transform Society | |
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New Partnerships in Christian Activism | |
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The Obama Effect | |
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Postmodern (Pragmatic) Idealism | |
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Time to Leave behind Old Liberal/Evangelical Battles | |
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It Looks like "Liberal" Won't Do It | |
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Finding a Term that Splits the Difference | |
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Making a Difference with the Difference | |
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From Church Ministries to Missional Churches | |
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How Things Used to Be | |
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How Things Are Now | |
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Rethinking Theology of Mission from the Ground Up | |
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Features of Missional Churches | |
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Social Transformation without "Us versus Them" | |
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Our Plural Identities | |
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Theology in an Age of interlocking Identities | |
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A Call to Retrieval, Renewal-and Radical Transformation | |
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Constructing Theologies of the Community for the Community: The Six Steps | |
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The Excitement Principle | |
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Identifying with a Missional Community | |
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Why Real Community and Missional Christianity are Inseparable | |
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Toward a Progressive Theology for Christian Activism | |
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Why Is It Controversial for Christians to be Boldly Progressive? | |
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Social Transformation in Luke 4, Luke 6, and Matthew 25 | |
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Working with God for the Salvation of the World | |
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Conversations Worth Having | |
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Choice, Convictions, and Connections | |
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Barriers to Belonging | |
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Toward a Progressive Missiology | |
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Notes | |
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For Further Reading | |