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The New Christians
Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier
Tony Jones (Author)
9780470455395, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 24 April 2009
288 pages
22.1 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.272 kg
"This intelligent and informative book is the only insider story from one of the leading lights of the more progressive wing of the emerging movement, the former national coordinator of Emergent Village." -Christianity Today (October 2009)
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 an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about the thinking and practices of adventurous Emergent Christians across the country, he offers an in-depth view of this new "third way" of faith-its origins, its theology, and its views of truth, scripture and interpretation, and the Emergent movement's hopeful and life-giving sense of community. With the depth of theological expertise and broad perspective he has gained as a pastor, writer, and leader of the movement, Jones initiates readers into the Emergent conversation and offers a new way forward for Christians in a post-Christian world. With journalistic narrative as well as authoritative reflection, he draws upon on-site research to provide fascinating examples and firsthand stories of who is doing what, where, and why it matters.
‘‘A Living Way: Emergent Visions’’ Series Foreword xiii Preface xv Introduction: What Is ‘‘Emergent’’? xvii Chapter 1 ~ Leaving the Old Country 1 4 ‘‘Church Is Dead’’ 5 Signs of Death–and Life 7 The Problem on the Left 10 A Case Study: Go Where I Send Thee 11 The Problem on the Right 13 A Case Study: Don’t Ask Us About the Chickens 18 The Real Problem: Left Versus Right 21 Caught in the Crossfire 24 Dispatch from the Blogosphere: Musings of a Postmodern Negro Chapter 2 ~ Dispatches from the Frontier of the American Church 31 31 An Allegory 33 An Alternative Ending 35 Geological Musings 37 What Exactly Is Emerging? 41 The Beginnings 43 ‘‘The Bible Is Propaganda’’ 49 The New Kind of Christian Effect 52 Meanwhile, Across the Pond 55 Then till Now 57 The Church’s Choice 60 Dispatch from the Rocky Mountains: Katie and Kristen Chapter 3 ~ Who Are the Emergent Christians? 67 68 Hunches and Intuitions 72 Influencing Culture or Influenced by Culture? 76 An ‘‘Envelope of Friendship’’ 80 An Emergent Voters’ Guide 86 Dispatch from I-35: The Terrific Tale of Trucker Frank Chapter 4 ~ The Theology, Stupid 95 96 Dartmouth Days 104 What, Exactly, Is Theology? 106 Theology on the Rise 111 Going Deep 115 Skiing the Slippery Slope 123 So, a Biblicist and a Relativist Walk into a Pastors’ Conference . . . 130 The Expurgated Lectionary 134 Dispatch from Seminary: Legalisms of the Left Chapter 5 ~ After Objectivity: Beautiful Truth 139 140 The Thrill of Interpretation 143 Reading the Whole Bible 148 ‘‘Sonny, It Ain’t Nothing till I Call It’’ 152 Truth (a.k.a. God) 155 After Objectivity: Dialogue 157 Beautiful, Messy, Incarnational Truth 162 Paradoxes 170 Dispatch from the End of a Three-Mile Dirt Road: Recovering ‘‘Church’’ Chapter 6 ~ Inside the Emergent Church 175 175 It’s a Great Day at Jacob’s Well! 180 Wikichurch 192 Tightly Knit: Journey 201 Binitarians 203 The People’s Liturgy: Church of the Apostles 209 Time to Rethink Seminary 210 MyChurch: A Paean to Solomon’s Porch Epilogue: Feral Christians 219 Appendices 221 222 Appendix A: ‘‘Emergent Village Values and Practices’’ 227 Appendix B: ‘‘A Response to Our Critics’’ 233 Appendix C: ‘‘Disastrous Statements’’ Notes 237 Acknowledgments 253 The Author 255 Index 257
Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]
