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| "A Living Way: Emergent Visions" Series Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: What Is "Emergent"? | |
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| Leaving the Old Country | |
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| "Church Is Dead" | |
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| Signs of Death-and Life | |
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| The Problem on the Left | |
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| A Case Study: Go Where I Send Thee | |
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| The Problem on the Right | |
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| A Case Study: Don't Ask Us About the Chickens | |
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| The Real Problem: Left Versus Right | |
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| Caught in the Crossfire | |
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| Dispatch from the Blogosphere: Musings of a Postmodern Negro | |
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| Dispatches from the Frontier of the American Church | |
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| An Allegory | |
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| An Alternative Ending | |
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| Geological Musings | |
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| What Exactly Is Emerging? | |
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| The Beginnings | |
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| "The Bible Is Propaganda" | |
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| The New Kind of Christian Effect | |
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| Meanwhile, Across the Pond | |
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| Then till Now | |
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| The Church's Choice | |
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| Dispatch from the Rocky Mountains: Katie and Kristen | |
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| Who Are the Emergent Christians? | |
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| Hunches and Intuitions | |
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| Influencing Culture or Influenced by Culture? | |
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| An "Envelope of Friendship" | |
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| An Emergent Voters' Guide | |
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| Dispatch from 1-35: The Terrific Tale of Trucker Frank | |
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| The Theology, Stupid | |
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| Dartmouth Days | |
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| What, Exactly, Is Theology? | |
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| Theology on the Rise | |
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| Going Deep | |
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| Skiing the Slippery Slope | |
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| So, a Biblicist and a Relativist Walk into a Pastors' Conference . . . | |
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| The Expurgated Lectionary | |
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| Dispatch from Seminary: Legalisms of the Left | |
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| After Objectivity: Beautiful Truth | |
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| The Thrill of Interpretation | |
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| Reading the Whole Bible | |
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| "Sonny, It Ain't Nothing till I Call It" | |
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| Truth (a.k.a. God) | |
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| After Objectivity: Dialogue | |
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| Beautiful, Messy, Incarnational Truth | |
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| Paradoxes | |
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| Dispatch from the End of a Three-Mile Dirt Road: Recovering "Church" | |
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| Inside the Emergent Church | |
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| It's a Great Day at Jacob's Well | |
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| Wikichurch | |
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| Tightly Knit: Journey | |
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| Binitarians | |
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| The People's Liturgy: Church of the Apostles | |
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| Time to Rethink Seminary | |
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| MyChurch: A Paean to Solomon's Porch | |
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| Epilogue: Feral Christians | |
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| Appendices | |
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| "Emergent Village Values and Practices" | |
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| "A Response to Our Critics" | |
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| "Disastrous Statements" | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Author | |
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| Index | |