Emergence Christianity What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters

Name: Emergence Christianity What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters
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ISBN: 9780801013553

ISBN-10: 0801013550

ISBN-13: 9780801013553

Edition: 2012

Authors: Phyllis Tickle

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Whatever else one might say about Emergence Christianity, says Phyllis Tickle, one must agree it is shifting and re-configuring itself in such a prodigious way as to defy any final assessments or absolute pronouncements. Yet the insightful and well-read Tickle offers us a dispatch from the field to keep us informed of where Emergence Christianity now stands, where it may be going, and how it is aligning itself with other parts of God's church. Through her careful study and culture-watching, Tickle invites readers to join this investigation and conversation as open-minded explorers rather than fearful opponents.As readers join Tickle down the winding stream of Emergence Christianity, they…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Phyllis Tickle is Contributing Editor in Religion for "Publishers Weekly". One of America's most respected authorities on religion, she is frequently interviewed for both print & electronic media, & is a regular guest on PBS's "Religion & Ethics News Weekly." The author of more than two dozen books, including the recently published "Divine Hours", she lives in Lucy, Tennessee.



Preface



An Interim Report: Telling the Story So Far



Back to Now: How Semi-Millennial Tsunamis of Change Shape Religion and Culture



Calling It What It Is: The Difficulty of Naming



Defining Emergence: Simplifying the Complexity



Turns of the Century: What Formed the Great Emergence?



A Long Time Coming: How Did We Get Here?



House Churches: Communities of Change



Scattered Communities: Spreading the Word by Spreading Out



Taking the Church Out of the Church: Rethinking Sacred Space



Pentecostal Power: The Holy Spirit in a Dangerous Decade



Spiritual but Not Religious: Belonging, Behaving, and Believing in a New Kind of Community



What the Hyphen Means: Claiming the New While Honoring the Old



Innocence Lost: A Movement Untethered



Religion Rebounds: Gathering Steam and Getting a Name



Pulling Together: Defining What It Is and What It Is Not



Reporting on the Action: Documenting the Changes as They Happened



It Takes a Village…



Distinguishing This from That: What Organizational Patterns Can Tell Us



Post, Quasi, Whatever: Getting beyond the Vague



The Whole and Its Parts: Bringing It All Together



Finding the Big Story: The Role of Philosophy and Meta-Narrative



The Head and the Heart: Worshiping with Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength



And Now What? Thoughts on the Decisions arid Dilemmas to Come



Reconfigure, Adapt, Realign: How Do the New and Old Fit Together?



Where Now Is Our Authority? Questioning and Establishing a Credible Voice



Future Pressure: What Potential Struggles Await?


Afterword


Annotated Bibliography


Index


Emergence Christianity: The Photographic Report