Publisher’s Weekly says, “Jones provides the single best introduction to the Emergent Church movement, of which he is a prominent leader. The mainline denominations are dying, and the hyperindividualism of evangelicalism is unsatisfying, so many young evangelicals, Jones explains, have decided to recreate church for postmodern times. He passionately defends the emergent movement from criticism. In particular, critics are wrong to claim that emergents don’t really believe in the Bible; emergents passionately love the Bible, says Jones, but also know that finite human beings cannot definitively articulate truth. The strongest sections put flesh on these theoretical bones by taking readers into actual emergent churches. Jones’s writing is brisk and conversational.”
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by far the most profound and erudite observation by a contemporary theologian in the 21st Century is, “The challenge … is (not) to be overcome by the smell of the poop…”
TJ! – Just ordered the book and looking forward to reading it. Would you ever be interested in an endoresement-or-sorts by a nobody with a critical eye?
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