Tag: emmergent

More quizes

Well I’d like to think I have a generous orthodoxy. I’ve told Laurie recently that I couldn’t tell you where I fall in the “theological spectrum.” But apparently, according to this quiz, I fall primarily in the emergent/postmodern mindset. But because I’d like to think I have a generous orthodoxy – know that where ever you fall – is cool with me ;-). Oh and hat-tip to Chad for the quiz link.

What’s your theological worldview?
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You scored as Emergent/Postmodern

You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don’t think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.

Emergent/Postmodern
89%

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
71%

Neo orthodox
57%

Reformed Evangelical
57%

Fundamentalist
39%

Classical Liberal
36%

Charismatic/Pentecostal
36%

Modern Liberal
32%

Roman Catholic
25%

Tony Jones and Collin Hansen discuss their “movements”

ChristianityToday is sharing an e-mail exchange between Tony Jones and Collin Hansen as they discuss their most recent books and their “movements” within Christianity.

Tony Jones is the national coordinator of Emergent Village and author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. Collin Hansen is editor-at-large of Christianity Today and author of Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists. Both books take a sympathetic journalistic approach to a young but growing movement in American Christianity, examining why it’s growing and how it’s changing the larger church.

From Tony Jones:

Where we probably differ is not so much on theology, but on epistemology. That is, it seems the difference between the people you profile in Young, Restless, Reformed seem pretty darn sure that they’ve got the gospel right, whereas the Emergents that I hang out with are less sure of their right-ness. In fact, they’re less sure that we, as finite human beings, can get anything all that right.

The discussion is being spread over three days. You can read the first two days online now, and tomorrow the third installment will be posted.

Thanks to John for the tip.

Homebrew Christianity (episode 2)

Thought this was super interesting…

The discussion around the table turns to looking at how some various doctrines are becoming more and more attracted to emergent thoughts and ideas (approx 14:30 min into the podcast).

“In the last year I’ve had meetings with three different kinds of Presbyterians who have all said… ‘that’s really Presbyterianism. It’s really good to hear this.’ And the Methodists say, ‘that’s totally Methodist theology that you’re talking about.’ The Episcopalians say, ‘that’s Anglicanism this emergent thing…’ With the Mennonites, ‘that’s what Mennonites say.'” … “I got a call from a Greek Orthodox church who said ‘I’m coming through Minneapolis and I’ve read the Emergent Manifesto of hope and I feel like I’ve found a long last brother. Can we get together?’ There’s something about this thing that all these traditions are saying, ‘That’s us in our best days!'”