The new Christians
Subtitle: dispatches from the emergent frontier
By: Tony Jones.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780787994716
Subjects: Christianity -- 21st century; Emerging church movement; Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A living way : emergent visions series foreword; title: Introduction: What is emergent?; title: Leaving the old country; title: Church is dead?; title: Signs of death and life; title: The problem on the left; title: A case study : go where I send thee; title: The problem on the right; title: A case study : don't ask us about the chickens; title: The real problem : left versus right; title: Caught in the crossfire; title: - Dispatch from the blogosphere : musings of a postmodern Negro; title: Dispatches from the frontier of the American church; title: An allegory; title: Geological musings; title: What exactly is emerging?; title: The beginnings; title: The Bible is propaganda?; title: The new kind of Christian effect; title: Meanwhile, across the pond; title: Then till now; title: The church's choice; title: Dispatch from the Rocky Mountains : Katie and Kristen; title: Who are the emergent Christians?; title: Hunches and intuitions; title: Influencing culture or influenced by culture; title: An envelope of friendship; title: An emergent voters' guide; title: Dispatch from I-35 : the terrific tale of Trucker Frank; title: The theology, stupid; title: Dartmouth days; title: What, exactly, is theology?; title: Theology on the rise; title: Going deep; title: Skiing the slippery slope; title: So, a biblicist and a relativist walk into a pastor's conference; title: The expurgated lectionary; title: Dispatch from seminary : legalisms of the left; title: After objectivity, beautiful truth; title: The thrill of interpretation; title: Reading the whole Bible; title: Sonny, it ain't nothing till I call it?; title: Truth (a.k.a. God); title: After objectivity : dialogue; title: Beautiful, messy, incarnational truth; title: Paradoxes; title: Dispatch from the end of a three-mile dirt road : recovering church; title: Inside the emergent church; title: It's a great day at Jacob's well!; title: Wikichurch; title: Tightly knit : journey; title: Binitarians; title: The people's liturgy : Church of the Apostles; title: Time to rethink seminary; title: My church : a paean to Solomon's porch; title: Epilogue: Feral Christians.