Postmodern and Wesleyan?
Subtitle: exploring the boundaries and possibilities
By: Jay Richard Akkerman, Thomas Jay Oord, and Brent D. Peterson, editors.
Contributors: Akkerman, Jay Richard.; Oord, Thomas Jay.; Peterson, Brent D.
Publisher: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City; The Foundry Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kansas City, Mo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780834124585
Subjects: Wesleyan Church -- Doctrines; Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Methodist Church -- Doctrines; Holiness churches -- Doctrines
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The postmodern conversation/shifting culture; title: Why talk about postmodernism? / Jon Middendorf; title: A big tent / T. Scott Daniels; title: Truth and postmodernism / Thomas Jay Oord; title: The church and postmodern pop culture / Joseph Bankard; title: Gender, ethnicity, and economics / Deirdre Brower Latz; title: Types of postmodernism / Thomas Jay Oord; title: Critical response; title: postmodernism / Gerard Reed; title: Conversation igniter / Leonard Sweet; title: Part II: The Gospel in postmodernity; title: The trustworthiness and authority of the Bible / Kara J. Lyons-Pardue; title: Salvation is hearing? / Dustin Metcalf; title: Holiness in the twenty-first century / Brent Peterson; title: Individuals and communities / Christa Klosterman; title: Evangelism in the postmodern matrix / Dana Hicks; title: Christianity and other religions / Albert Truesdale; title: Critical response; title: timeless truths in contemporary forms / Gene Grate; title: Conversation igniter / Leonard Sweet; title: Part III: The church in postmodernity; title: The emerging and emergent church / Dean G. Blevins; title: The sensory side of being spiritual / Keith Schwanz; title: Why our (loving) practices matter / Terry Fach; title: From come and see to go and be / Brett I. Williams; title: The Eucharist renews and remakes the church / Brent Peterson; title: Not remotely controlled / Jay Richard Akkerman; title: Christian education and postmodernism / Mark Maddix; title: The mission of the church / Jim Wicks; title: Critical response; title: some cautions to reconceiving church / Philip R. Hamner; title: Conversation igniter / Leonard Sweet; title: Part IV: In, with, and for the world; title: Why others matter to us / Eric Severson; title: The strength of weakness / Benji Rodes; title: How to be a citizen of the kingdom of heaven and live in kingdoms of this world / Nathan R. Kerr; title: Postmodern Christians in God's creation / Michael Lodahl; title: Entertaining angels in the face of injustice / Brian K. Postlewait; title: Science and faith in a postmodern world / Mark H. Mann; title: Critical response; title: something old, something new, something ... postmodern / Carl M. Leth; title: Conversation igniter / Leonard Sweet.