The new Christians : dispatches from the emergent frontier /

Jones, Tony, 1968-,

The new Christians : dispatches from the emergent frontier / [print] Tony Jones. - first edition. - San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, [(c)2008. - xx, 264 pages ; 24 cm. - A living way, emergent visions. . - Living way (San Francisco, Calif.) .



A living way : emergent visions series foreword Introduction: What is emergent? ; Leaving the old country Church is dead? ; Signs of death and life The problem on the left A case study : go where I send thee The problem on the right A case study : don't ask us about the chickens The real problem : left versus right Caught in the crossfire --- Dispatch from the blogosphere : musings of a postmodern Negro Dispatches from the frontier of the American church An allegory An alternative ending Geological musings What exactly is emerging? ; The beginnings The Bible is propaganda? ; The new kind of Christian effect Meanwhile, across the pond Then till now The church's choice Dispatch from the Rocky Mountains : Katie and Kristen Who are the emergent Christians? ; Hunches and intuitions Influencing culture or influenced by culture An envelope of friendship An emergent voters' guide Dispatch from I-35 : the terrific tale of Trucker Frank The theology, stupid Dartmouth days What, exactly, is theology? ; Theology on the rise Going deep Skiing the slippery slope So, a biblicist and a relativist walk into a pastor's conference The expurgated lectionary Dispatch from seminary : legalisms of the left After objectivity, beautiful truth The thrill of interpretation Reading the whole Bible Sonny, it ain't nothing till I call it? ; Truth (a.k.a. God) ; After objectivity : dialogue Beautiful, messy, incarnational truth Paradoxes Dispatch from the end of a three-mile dirt road : recovering church Inside the emergent church It's a great day at Jacob's well! ; Wikichurch Tightly knit : journey Binitarians The people's liturgy : Church of the Apostles Time to rethink seminary My church : a paean to Solomon's porch Epilogue: Feral Christians.



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Christianity--21st century.
Emerging church movement.
Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

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