Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures
 

Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures

by Eddie Gibbs, Ryan K. Bolger

The "emerging church" movement is perhaps the most significant church trend of our day. The emerging church offers and encourages a new way of doing and being the church. While it largely resonates with an eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old audience--the first fully postmodern generation--it is also gaining popularity with older Christians and encompasses a broad array of traditional and... (more)

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M Loverin
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If you were stranded on a desert island, and had only one book to read about the emergent/emerging Church, this is the book. A first-rate, relatively objective analysis of what is going on amongst Christian communities that self-identify as emergent, post-Christian, post-evangelical, or post-whatever. Gibbs & Bolger give the ecclesiological commitments of emerging Christianity a face and a voice (many faces and many voices, really), which in turn humanizes it. Absent a theological...

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robeena
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An unhelpful book. A string of interview quotes with no real meat. Left a bad taste in my mouth.

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  • Mathetes

    mathetes said:

    Actually, the book didn't include interviews with anyone from down under, it was strictly UK/US centric. That was one of its failing. Another was that there was all too little self reflection. I found the chapter on leaderless churches, that included all the usual suspects, to be particularly ironic. But it was an important survey nonetheless.

    posted Tuesday, November 6 2007

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