Emerging Down Under
Two interesting book items from “down under” this week:
Duncan Macleod at Postkiwi.com (from New Zealand, now living in Australia) has an excellent review of Doug Pagitt’s forthcoming book A Christianity Worth Believing (due out June 2): “Doug takes us on a journey with him as he reimagines what Christianity might be about. He introduces us to contextualisation through the Celtic adoption of the wild goose when talking about the Holy Spirit (rather than the traditional dove). He traces the modern obsession with uniformity back to the Greco-Roman adoption of Christianity in the time of Constantine. Today, he says, we’re still interpreting the story of Jesus through the lenses developed for a world dominated by Greek dualism and gods that needed to be appeased. ...
“As much as Doug’s book is about belief, I get the sense that he’s presenting us with a Christianity worth living and worth sharing.”
AusJenny alerted me to Tony Campolo’s latest Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics.
Related: These aren’t from this week, but here’s a few more items of interest …
A new book came out recently entitled Emerging Downunder by Ray Simpson and Brent Lyons Lee (ATF Press), which explores “worldwide conversations about ‘emerging church’ and ‘new monasticism’ and applied it to a ‘downunder’ context.” The foreword by Tim Costello and the introduction are available as a PDF download. According to Amazon, the book won’t be out in the U.S. until September. (HT: Matt Stone)
Nick Fiedler is a USAmerican living in Brisbane, Australia, and he wrote recently about “What Can Emerging Communities Learn from Abroad?”
In response to Tony Jones’ post on “emerging/Emergent,” emergent kiwi Steve Taylor offers his response, as well as three interesting constructive ideas (see the comments section). Anyone willing/able to take on the EmergentTrainManifesto idea? The domain names are available. Which reminds me of Thomas Knoll’s “Emerging Stories” project, which (as of 5/9/2008) still needs four more contributors ...
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