Introduction : conceptualizing emerging evangelicalism -- Stories of deconversion -- Ironies of faith -- Ancient-future I : experiencing God -- Ancient-future II : everyday monastics -- Missional I : everyday missionaries -- Missional II : kingdom theologies -- Church planting I : a new work -- Church planting II : sense of place -- Conclusion : dialogic evangelicalism
Summary
The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were disenchanted with America's conservative Evangelical sub-culture. It is a response to the increasing divide between conservative Evangelicals and concerned critics who strongly oppose what they consider overly slick, corporate, and consumerist versions of faith. A core feature of their response is a challenge to traditional congregational models, often focusing on new church plants and creating networks of related house churches. Drawing on three years of ethnographic f
