A Emergent Manifesto of Hope (

by Doug Pagitt (Editor), Tony Jones (Editor)

Overview

Many have heard of the emerging church, but few people feel like they have a handle on what the emerging church believes and represents. Is it a passing fad led by disenfranchised neo-evangelicals? Or is it the future of the church at large?
Now available in trade paper, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope represents a coming together of divergent voices into a conversation that pastors, students, and thoughtful Christians can now learn from and engage in. This unprecedented collection of writings includes articles by some of the most important voices in the emergent conversation, including Brian McLaren, Dan Kimball, and Sally Morgenthaler. It also introduces some lesser known but integral players representing "who's next" within the emerging church. The articles cover a broad range of topics, such as spirituality, theology, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, sex, evangelism, and many others. Anyone who wants to know what the emerging church is all about needs to start here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441200570
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/01/2008
Series:	?mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	720 KB

About the Author

Doug Pagitt (MA, Bethel Seminary) is pastor of Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and author of Preaching Re-Imagined, Church Re-Imagined, and BodyPrayer.

Tony Jones (MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary) is currently working on his PhD in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Formerly the minister to youth and young adults at the Colonial Church of Edina in Edina, Minnesota, Jones has authored several books, including Postmodern Youth Ministry, Soul Shaper, Divine Intervention, and Pray.
Doug Pagitt (MA, Bethel Seminary) is pastor of Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and author of A Christianity Worth Believing, Preaching Re-Imagined, Church Re-Imagined, and BodyPrayer.
Tony Jones (MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary) is national coordinator of Emergent Village (www.emergentvillage.com). He is currently working on his PhD in practical theology at Princeton and has authored several books, including The New Christians, Postmodern Youth Ministry, The Sacred Way, and Divine Intervention.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Friendship, Faith, and Going Somewhere Together   Tony Jones     11
A People of Hope: Emergent-a Generative Friendship of Missional Christians   Doug Pagitt     17
Growing Pains: The Messy and Fertile Process of Becoming   Mark Scandrette     21
Meeting Jesus at the Bar: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evangelism   Heather Kirk-Davidoff     33
What Would Huckleberry Do? A Relational Ethic as the Jesus Way   Nanette Sawyer     41
The Postmodern Parent: Shifting Paradigms for the Ultimate Act of Re-Creation   Carla Barnhill     51
The Art of Emergence: Being God's Handiwork   Troy Bronsink     59
Communities of Hope: New Ways, Questions, and Outcomes for Churches of Our Day   Doug Pagitt     75
An Ever-Renewed Adventure of Faith: Notes from a Community   Sherry Maddock   Geoff Maddock     79
Jailhouse Faith: A Community of Jesus in an Unlikely Place   Thomas Malcolm Olson     89
The Existing Church/Emerging Church Matrix: Collision, Credibility, Missional Collaboration, and Generative Friendship   Tim Conder     97
The American Catholic Merger-Church: A Too Small Answer   Brian Mitchell     109
Presbymergent: The Story of One Mainliner's Questto Be a Loyal Radical   Adam Walker Cleaveland     119
A Hopeful Faith: Christianity and the "God of Good Hope"   Tony Jones     129
Following Jesus into Culture: Emerging Church as Social Movement   Ryan Bolger     131
Church Emerging: Or Why I Still Use the Word Postmodern but with Mixed Feelings   Brian D. McLaren     141
The End of Reinvention: Mission Beyond Market Adoption Cycles   Will Samson     153
Converting Christianity: The End and Beginning of Faith   Barry Taylor     163
A Hopeful Way Forward: Theology of Practice, Practice of Theology   Doug Pagitt     171
Leadership in a Flattened World: Grassroots Culture and the Demise of the CEO Model   Sally Morgenthaler     175
The Sweet Problem of Inclusiveness: Finding Our God in the Other   Samir Selmanovic     189
Orthoparadoxy: Emerging Hope for Embracing Difference   Dwight J. Friesen     201
Humble Theology: Re-exploring Doctrine While Holding On to Truth   Dan Kimball     213
Leading from the Margins: The Role of Imagination in Our Changing Context   Tim Keel     225
Digging Up the Past: Karl Barth (the Reformed Giant) as Friend to the Emerging Church   Chris Erdman     235
Hopeful Activism: The Jesus Way in the Realities of Life   Tony Jones     245
A Pound of Social Justice: Beyond Fighting for a Just Cause   Rodolpho Carrasco     247
Emergent Kissing: Authenticity and Integrity in Sexuality   Karen E. Sloan     259
Our Report Card in the Year 2057: A Reflection on Women's Rights, Poverty, and Oppression   Deborah Loyd   Ken Loyd     269
Practicing Pentecost: Discovering the Kingdom of God amid Racial Fragmentation   Anthony Smith     279
Restoring Honor in the Land: Why the Emerging Church Can't Dodge the Issue   Randy Woodley     291
Afterword: This Is Just the Beginning: Living Our Great-Grandchildren's History   Doug Pagitt     302
Afterword to the Paperback Edition   Tony Jones   Doug Pagitt     307
Notes     310