Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures

by Eddie Gibbs

Paperback, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

250

Collection

Publication

Baker Academic (2005), 346 pages

Description

The "emerging church" movement is perhaps the most significant church trend of our day. The emerging church offers and encourages a new way of doing and being the church. While it largely resonates with an eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old audience--the first fully postmodern generation--it is also gaining popularity with older Christians and encompasses a broad array of traditional and contemporary churches. Emerging Churches explores this movement and provides insight into its success.Filled with the latest research and interesting, anecdotal testimonies from those on the cutting edge of ministry, this book provides pastors, church leaders, and interested readers with an insightful glimpse into the thriving churches of today--and tomorrow.

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An impressive write-up of grounded theory following a major research project into new types of church community - all from the evangelical, protestant wing of the Church, and mainly in the US and the UK. Reading this book in 2023, it struck me how ethereal these churches were - few can now be found
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to still be in existence. There is a large appendix giving the personal stories of church planters, written by themselves - and therefore slightly narcissistic.
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Physical description

346 p.; 9.02 inches

ISBN

0801027152 / 9780801027154
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