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Emergence Christianity: What It Is, Where It Is Going, And Why It Matters (2012)

by Phyllis A. Tickle(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0801013550 (ISBN13: 9780801013553)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Baker Books

review 1: Fascinating discussion of some of the new thinking about Christianity. Tickle says that major change has affected the western Christian church about every 500 years. The councils of Nicea which resulted in Christianity becoming the religion of the Roman Empire occurred from 300 AD to 500 AD. At about 1000 the Great Schism occurred which divided eastern Christianity from western. The last major change was the Reformation when authority moved away from church hierarchy to the bible. Today as mainline Christianity seems to be declining, new forms of worship and living as Christians in the secular world are developing.This book is definitely dense and theological, but I found it very interesting. When I visit my son in San Francisco I enjoy worshiping at St Gregory's, one o... moref the new communities identified in the book. I first went there because I had read "Take this Bread" by Sara Miles...another book I recommend.
review 2: A follow-up of "The Great Emergence," detailing more about the present shakeup, particularly the emergent/emergence movements, their doctrines, praxis, and the greater intellectual movements shaping such things.Reading "The Great Emergence" first will provide background regarding the 500 year shakeup concept, obliquely mentioned in this book but not expanded upon in any depth. This book focuses much more on the shifts in Christianity over the past 200 years while providing a history of the modern emergent/emergence movements. The author is quite convinced that the future of Christianity in the world rests in these movements in whatever form they might head.As a history of a movement in progress the author succeeds admirably. The author attempts to remain objective although her sympathy for the movement is evident. She does well at investigating the different strands of development, how they are alike how they are different, and how so many of them are part and parcel of the larger intellectual, cultural, and social developments and changes over the past 10/25/50/100/200 years. Yet, as with any such book, what will happen will happen; perhaps the author is right in seeing emergence and/or emergent Christianity as becoming the big thing coming out of the present shakeup, or perhaps something quite different will manifest itself over the next few generations, if the Lord does not yet return. Those in the future will be in a much better position to sort out how the paradigm shifts will turn out than we are today. After all, what would speculators have concluded about the Reformation based on the situation in 1559, or regarding the Great Schism based upon the situation in 1094? If you are interested in modern trends in Christianity, this book is an excellent read to come to a better understanding of the emergent/emergence movements. As to the future, we'll see. less

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