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The new Christians : dispatches from the emergent frontier / Tony Jones. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Living way (San Francisco, Calif.)Publication details: San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, (c)2008.Edition: first editionDescription: xx, 264 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780787994716
  • 9780470455395
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR121.J79.N493 2008
  • BR121
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Contents:
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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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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