Gospel after Christendom New Voices, New Cultures, New Expressions

Name: Gospel after Christendom New Voices, New Cultures, New Expressions
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ISBN: 9780801039430

ISBN-10: 0801039436

ISBN-13: 9780801039430

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ryan K. Bolger

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Emerging church movements are an increasingly global phenomenon; they exist as holistic communities that defy dualistic Western forms of church. Until now, many of the voices from these movements have gone unheard. In this volume, Ryan Bolger assembles some of the most innovative church leaders from around the world to share their candid insider stories about how God is transforming their communities in an entirely new era for the church.Bolger's new book continues the themes that he and Eddie Gibbs established formally in their critically acclaimed Emerging Churches and situates new church movements within this rubric. It explores what's happening now in innovative church movements in…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.210

Ryan K. Bolger (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate professor of church in contemporary culture at the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His research focuses on the emerging and missional church movements, and he is the coauthor of Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Contributors


Contributor Dedications to Eddie Gibbs


Preface


Introduction




Peoples



Iglesias Emergentes in Latin America




Emerging Churches in Aotearoa New Zealand




Emerging Missional Churches in Australia




New Expressions of Church in Scandinavia




New Expressions of Church in the Low Countries




Fresh Expressions of Missional Church in French-Speaking Europe




Emerging Christian Communities in German-Speaking Europe




Cultures



New Monastic Community in a Time of Environmental Crisis




Mission within Hybrid Cultures: Transnationality and the Global Church




Distinctly Welcoming: The Church in a Pluralist Culture




Our P(art) in an Age of Beauty




Mission among Individual Consumers




Mission in a New Spirituality Culture




Practices



Rethinking Worship as an Emerging Christian Practice




Formation in the Post-Christendom Era: Exilic Practices and Missional Identity




Toward a Holistic Process of Transformational Mission




Leadership as Body and Environment: The Rider and the Horse




Experiments



The Underground: The Living Mural of a Hip-Hop Church




Bykirken (The City-Church): Pray and East




House for All Sinners and Saints




L'Autre Rive (The Other Bank or Shore)




With: An Experimental Church




The Jesus Dojo




St. Tom's: From Gathered to Scattered




Urban Abbey: The Power of Small, Sustainable, Nimble Micro-Communities of Jesus




Traditions



Indigenous and Anglican: A Truly Native Church Emerges in the Anglican Church of Canada




Turning the Ocean Liner: The Fresh Expressions Initiative




On the Move: Toward Fresh Expressions of Church in Germany



Conclusion



Afterword



Index