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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 261 EAN: 9780310254874 ISBN: 0310254876 Label: Zondervan/Youth Specialties Manufacturer: Zondervan/Youth Specialties Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: October 01, 2003 Publisher: Zondervan/Youth Specialties Studio: Zondervan/Youth Specialties Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A feisty, entertaining, and educational conversation about the shape of the church of the 21st century. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - DisappointingI completely agree with the review entitled "pass". The layout of this book makes it very difficult to understand or track with. I took a class on Christianity and the Post-modern World at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte, NC) and I was most excited about reading this book because of the folks participating in the conversation. Placing practitioners like Erwin McManus and Brain McLauren in the same room with with thinkers like Andy Crouch and Leonard Sweet should make ... Read More Rating:  - A mixed bagThe Church in Emerging Culture was generally unremarkable. Each of the five essays contained thought-provoking ideas, but overall they lacked coherence. The points brought out by one author were so unrelated to the points brought out by the next that the reason that any two essays were collected together was a mystery to me. The format of the book was a mixed bag as well. Comments by other authors inserted directly into the essay seriously broke the flow, even though it was fun to see the "immediate" ... Read More Rating:  - Great resource for information on the Emergent ChurchI have greatly enjoyed this book. The conversation format provokes thought and adds a level of depth and clarity that is rarely experienced (especially in books concerning the Emergent Church). Moreover, the contributors approach the topic from different views, which allows the reader to see different sides of the issue and make a decision for him/herself. If you are curious as to what the key issues are for this topic/discussion, this is the book for you! Rating: - A needful, if confused and quite unfinished, conversationAndy Crouch. Skeptical of postmodernism, Arminian, (but curiously) open to the New Perspective of Paul & Law, seeks recovery of baptism and eucharist as the enduring means of grace. "Postmodernism is encroaching consumer culture which we must overcome via service and sacraments". Michael Horton. Reformed, dismissive of postmodernism as a determinant of Christian thinking, critical of 'low-church' theology, believes that justification by faith is Scripture's key question. "Postmodernism is ... Read More Rating: - Decent introduction of topicThe book gives five different perspectives, from five different authors, on how the church should respond to an increasing post-modern culture. It is in a sense a modern day discussion of H. Richard Niebuhr's classic text Christ and Culture. The five perspectives are introduced by Leonard Sweet with a four quadrant matrix. The matrix represents the church's response to cultural change on two axes, change in method/form/style and change in message/content/substance. The four quadrants are then described ... Read More 
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