Tony Jones

The New Christians

Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

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Produktbeschreibung

PRAISE FOR THE NEW CHRISTIANS "Jones provides the single best introduction to the Emergent Church Movement." --Publishers Weekly "Reading these words you feel things bursting back to life inside you. It is some kind of re-enlightenment, an awakening in the most noble and holistic sense of the world, a thing coming to take hold. Tony's writing is generous and clear." --David Crowder, SINGER, SONGWRITER, AND LEADER OF THE DAVID CROWDER BAND "The New Christians shows how the influence of Jesus of Nazareth is moving among a new generation hungry for something real and desperate to move beyond simplistic polarities inherited from the past. Tony Jones stands at the crossroads of theology, philosophy, and culture, tackling the issues...with depth, humility, and grace " --Jim Wallis, AUTHOR, GOD'S POLITICS; PRESIDENT, SOJOURNERS/CALL TO RENEWAL "I devoured this book! Just as A New Kind of Christian gave words to the experiences and thoughts of so many early in this decade, The New Christians provides language, theology, and a nudge toward a path out of our bipolar morass of left vs. right, liberal vs. conservative, mainline vs. evangelical.... Tony's book will provide...new hope for those who cannot (or refuse to) continue trudging numbly along the cattle paths of the American church." --Mark Oestreicher, PRESIDENT, YOUTH SPECIALTIES "Every thinking Christian should read this book either for the explication or the explanation. Wise ones will read it for both." --Phyllis Tickle, COMPILER, THE DIVINE HOURS, AND AUTHOR, THE WORDS OF JESUS

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780470455395
• ISBN-10: 047045539X
• Artikelnr.: 25842174

Autorenporträt

TONY JONES, (TONYJ.NET)is the author of many books on Christian ministry and spirituality, including The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life. He is a theologian-in-residence at Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis and a doctoral fellow in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Tony is a sought-after speaker and consultant in the areas of emerging church, postmodernism, and Christian spirituality. Tony has three children and lives in Edina, Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

 ''A Living Way: Emergent Visions'' Series Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Introduction: What Is ''Emergent''? xvii
Chapter 1 ~ Leaving the Old Country 1
4 ''Church Is Dead''
5 Signs of Death-and Life
7 The Problem on the Left
10 A Case Study: Go Where I Send Thee
11 The Problem on the Right
13 A Case Study: Don't Ask Us About the Chickens
18 The Real Problem: Left Versus Right
21 Caught in the Crossfire
24 Dispatch from the Blogosphere: Musings of a Postmodern Negro
Chapter 2 ~ Dispatches from the Frontier of the American Church 31
31 An Allegory
33 An Alternative Ending
35 Geological Musings
37 What Exactly Is Emerging?
41 The Beginnings
43 ''The Bible Is Propaganda''
49 The New Kind of Christian Effect
52 Meanwhile, Across the Pond
55 Then till Now
57 The Church's Choice
60 Dispatch from the Rocky Mountains: Katie and Kristen
Chapter 3 ~ Who Are the Emergent Christians? 67
68 Hunches and Intuitions
72 Influencing Culture or Influenced by Culture?
76 An ''Envelope of Friendship''
80 An Emergent Voters' Guide
86 Dispatch from I-35: The Terrific Tale of Trucker Frank
Chapter 4 ~ The Theology, Stupid 95
96 Dartmouth Days
104 What, Exactly, Is Theology?
106 Theology on the Rise
111 Going Deep
115 Skiing the Slippery Slope
123 So, a Biblicist and a Relativist Walk into a Pastors' Conference . . .
130 The Expurgated Lectionary
134 Dispatch from Seminary: Legalisms of the Left
Chapter 5 ~ After Objectivity: Beautiful Truth 139
140 The Thrill of Interpretation
143 Reading the Whole Bible
148 ''Sonny, It Ain't Nothing till I Call It''
152 Truth (a.k.a. God)
155 After Objectivity: Dialogue
157 Beautiful, Messy, Incarnational Truth
162 Paradoxes
170 Dispatch from the End of a Three-Mile Dirt Road: Recovering ''Church''
Chapter 6 ~ Inside the Emergent Church 175
175 It's a Great Day at Jacob's Well!
180 Wikichurch
192 Tightly Knit: Journey
201 Binitarians
203 The People's Liturgy: Church of the Apostles
209 Time to Rethink Seminary
210 MyChurch: A Paean to Solomon's Porch
Epilogue: Feral Christians 219
Appendices 221
222 Appendix A: ''Emergent Village Values and Practices''
227 Appendix B: ''A Response to Our Critics''
233 Appendix C: ''Disastrous Statements''
Notes 237
Acknowledgments 253
The Author 255
Index 257

Rezensionen

"This intelligent and informative book is the only insider story from one of the leading lights of the more progressive wing of the emerging movement, the former national coordinator of Emergent Village." -Christianity Today (October 2009)