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The new Christians : dispatches from the emergent frontier
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The new Christians : dispatches from the emergent frontier

Author: Tony Jones
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, ©2008.
Series: Living way (San Francisco, Calif.)
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Tony Jones
ISBN: 9780787994716 0787994715 9780470455395 047045539X
OCLC Number: 173367578
Description: xx, 264 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Living way (San Francisco, Calif.)
Responsibility: Tony Jones.
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