For those of you who are in the academy, the local church or the youth pastorate have no doubt come in contact with with such terms as postmodernism and the emerging church. The emerging church is one movement with in the protestant church that is attempting to address ministering in a postmodern culture. Due to the newness of the emerging church, the verdict is still out on its effectivness along with its theology. As a result, there have been numerous critiques both positive and negative on this movement.
For those of you new to this movement, I am posting The Emerging Church by D.A. Carson.
D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. This article was adapted from his new book Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church (Zondervan, 2005). It is excerpted here by permission of the author and publisher.
Monday, June 05, 2006
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Jake, this article provides an excellent and helpful explanation and slight critique of the emergent church. It's the best thing I've read on the emergent movt. from outside the movt. itself... and it provides and nice objective view. Read too much emergent authors and you'll need to come up for fresh air... Carson provides that here. Now I'm going to have to read his book too.
I'm going to post a link from my blog over here.
I believe I'm going to purchase that book this week or see if the library has it myself.
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