03526cam a2200385 a 4500 15009259 20250312110233.0 150206s2008 cau b 001 0 eng 2007038030 GBA806466 bnb 014493395 Uk 9780787994716 (paperback) BR121.3 .J665 2008 270.8/3 22 Jones, Tony, 1968- The new Christians : dispatches from the emergent frontier / Tony Jones. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2008. xx, 264 p. ; 24 cm. A living way Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index. A living way : emergent visions series foreword -- Introduction: What is emergent? -- Leaving the old country -- Church is dead? -- Signs of death and life -- The problem on the left -- A case study : go where I send thee -- The problem on the right -- A case study : don't ask us about the chickens -- The real problem : left versus right -- Caught in the crossfire --- Dispatch from the blogosphere : musings of a postmodern Negro -- Dispatches from the frontier of the American church -- An allegory -- An alternative ending -- Geological musings -- What exactly is emerging? -- The beginnings -- The Bible is propaganda? -- The new kind of Christian effect -- Meanwhile, across the pond -- Then till now -- The church's choice -- Dispatch from the Rocky Mountains : Katie and Kristen -- Who are the emergent Christians? -- Hunches and intuitions -- Influencing culture or influenced by culture -- An envelope of friendship -- An emergent voters' guide -- Dispatch from I-35 : the terrific tale of Trucker Frank -- The theology, stupid -- Dartmouth days -- What, exactly, is theology? -- Theology on the rise -- Going deep -- Skiing the slippery slope -- So, a biblicist and a relativist walk into a pastor's conference -- The expurgated lectionary -- Dispatch from seminary : legalisms of the left -- After objectivity, beautiful truth -- The thrill of interpretation -- Reading the whole Bible -- Sonny, it ain't nothing till I call it? -- Truth (a.k.a. God) -- After objectivity : dialogue -- Beautiful, messy, incarnational truth -- Paradoxes -- Dispatch from the end of a three-mile dirt road : recovering church -- Inside the emergent church -- It's a great day at Jacob's well! -- Wikichurch -- Tightly knit : journey -- Binitarians -- The people's liturgy : Church of the Apostles -- Time to rethink seminary -- My church : a paean to Solomon's porch -- Epilogue: Feral Christians. Christianity 21st century. Emerging church movement. Postmodernism Religious aspects Christianity. Living way (San Francisco, Calif.) Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007038030-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007038030-b.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007038030-t.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default claim1 2010-02-16 BK sh13 2007-09-20 sh13 2007-09-20 to Dewey re12 2010-04-02 Z-CipVer telework 2 copies to BCCD 8 1475 1475 0 0 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 270.83 Jon 2008 11590 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 BK