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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 | |