Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Thinking about Emergent and Emerging Churches













Some links I picked up from Wikipedia

The Emerging Church, Part One July 8, 2005, PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

The Emerging Church, Part Two July 15, 2005, PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

The Emergent Mystique - Christianity Today feature by Andy Crouch

Absolutely Not! Exposing the postmodern errors of the emerging church by Phil Johnson, from the 2006 Shepherds' Conference at Grace Community Church

Postmodernism and the Emerging Church Movement by David Kowalski

The Emerging Church

"A Generous Orthodoxy" -- Is it Orthodox? by Albert Mohler

A New Kind of Postmodernist by Douglas Groothuis

Emerging Confusion by Charles Colson

More Than a Fad: Understanding the Emerging Church by Walter Henegar



4 comments:

  1. please allow me to humbly submit my collection :-)
    http://sivinkit.net/archives/cat_emergentemerging_churches.html

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  2. dear sivin,

    Thank you for these links. I shall examine them.

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  3. You are welcome Alex. Mine is obviously openly bias :-) Bias in a sense while I won't say all things "emergent" and "emerging church" is THE solution to our problems ... apart from the PBS links and maybe Andy Crouch. The other links by Johnson, Mohler and even Colson are either too reactive or more negative understanding of what is postmodernism and/or postmodernity as a socio-cultural category. Then again, perhaps in the USA context there is much at stake.

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  4. Your list us useful.

    It is unfortunate that I find some Christian theologians and leaders, whom i respect greatly, reacting at an emotive level at emergent/emerging churches. I am not sure yet whether they are reacting to the eccelsiology of the emergent/emerging churches or to postmodernism. Sometimes, I am not sure they know and differentiate between the two.

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