{"id":4826,"date":"2009-10-28T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2009-10-28T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T21:31:32","slug":"emergent-dispatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/emergent-dispatches\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergent dispatches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A quick summary of emergent Christianity… via @jonestony<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dispatch 1: Emergents practice a generous orthodoxy that appreciates the contributions of all Christian movements.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 2: Emergents reject the politics & theologies of left versus right — they anticipate a more complex reality.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 3: The gospel is like lava: no matter how much crust has formed over it, it will find a way to burst through.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 4: The emergent phenomenon began when a group began talking about how postmodernism was affecting the faith. <\/p>\n

Dispatch 5: The emergent movement is not exclusively North American; it is growing around the globe.
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\nDispatch 6: Emergents see God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s activity in all aspects of culture and reject the sacred-secular divide.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 7: Emergents think that an envelope of friendship and reconciliation must surround all debates about doctrine. <\/p>\n

Dispatch 8: Emergents find the biblical call to community more compelling than the democratic call to individual rights.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 9: Emergent is robustly theological; the conviction is that theology and practice are inextricably related.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 10: Emergents believe that theology is local, conversational, and temporary.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 11: Awareness of our relative position\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto God & one another\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbreeds biblical humility, not relativistic apathy.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 12: Emergents embrace the whole Bible, the glory and the pathos. <\/p>\n

Dispatch 13: Emergents believe that truth, like God, cannot be definitively articulated by finite human beings.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 14: Emergents embrace paradox, especially those that are core components of the Christian story.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 15: Emergents have a hope-filled eschatology: it was good news when Jesus came & it will be when he returns.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 16: Emergents believe that church should function more like an open-source network and less like a hierarchy.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 17: Emergents start new churches to save their own faith, not necessarily to make new converts. <\/p>\n

Dispatch 18: Emergents believe that God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Spirit is responsible for all good. Our task is to cooperate with God.<\/p>\n

Dispatch 19: Emergents downplay\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor outright reject\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe differences between clergy and laity. <\/p>\n

Dispatch 20: Emergents believe that church should be just as beautiful and messy as life. <\/p>\n

I’m sure Tony will continue posting the rest of this list via Twitter (@jonestony<\/a><\/span>)– or Tony’s book, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier<\/a>, is now available on paperback. It includes all these dispatches and it’s a great resource for those interested in understanding the history of the emergent church movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick summary of emergent Christianity… via Dispatch 1: Emergents practice a generous orthodoxy that appreciates the contributions of all Christian movements. Dispatch 2: Emergents reject the politics & theologies of left versus right — they anticipate a more complex reality. Dispatch 3: The gospel is like lava: no matter how much crust has formed … Continue reading Emergent dispatches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,18],"tags":[2718,1103,2269,1197,900],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-faith","tag-dispatches","tag-emergent","tag-emerging-christianity","tag-the-new-christians","tag-tony-jones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1fQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}