| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Evangelicalism -- United States.
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Evangelicalism. |
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United States. |
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Emerging church movement -- United States.
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Emerging church movement. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bielo, James S. Emerging evangelicals. New York : New York University Press, ©2011 9780814789544 (DLC) 2011015755 (OCoLC)715286440 |
| ISBN |
9780814723234 electronic book |
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0814723233 electronic book |
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9780814789544 |
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0814789544 |
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9780814789551 |
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0814789552 |
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9780814789568 |
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0814789560 |
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9780814739181 |
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0814739180 |
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