The Emerging Conversation ... In Judaism
The January 16-17, 2006, gathering of Synagogue 3000 was captured on video, and that video has now been posted online:
Emergent Christian participants were Ryan Bolger, Troy Bronsink, Dwight Friesen, Tony Jones, Tim Keel, Doug Pagitt, and Dieter Zander—some of whom appear in this edited video.
The “blog facilitator” at Out of Ur writes, “The presence of ‘Emergents’ in two major world religions, and the cooperation of the two groups together, elicits a few questions in my mind:
- For the critics of the Emergent movement: does the development of the Jewish Emergent movement indicate that the Christian Emergents are on to something? That is, does an analogous response from adherents of another religion validate the emergent impulse? If the emergent movement is not a strictly religious phenomenon, but is a cultural one with religious implications, what can traditional churches do to keep up with the times?
- For proponents of the Emergent movement: what is implied by the fact that Emergent conversation leaders seem more willing to work cooperatively with ‘emergent’ adherents of other religions than traditionalist or ‘Reformed’ Christians? Is the emergent label of greater concern to them than the Christian one?
- If Jewish Emergents can operate within the institution, why can’t Christian Emergents? Can institutional churches and emergent ones benefit from a collegial relationship with one another?”
Previously: Shawn Landres on “Emergent” and “Emerging”
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Shawn,
Thanks for providing the complete list of Christian and Jewish participants! That is great to know.
Shalom,
Steve K.
I realized I left the scholars off my earlier list: Ryan Bolger, Steven M. Cohen, and Wade Clark Roof. The other people who speak in the video are Ron Wolfson and me.
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Thanks, Steve. Actually, the complete list of Emergent Christian participants is: Troy Bronsink, Scott Collins-Jones, Dwight Friesen, Tony Jones, Tim Keel, Heather Kirk-Davidoff, Doug Pagitt, Nanette Sawyer, and Dieter Zander (who brought David Cobia with him). Rebecca ver Straten-McSparran was part of the original group but was unable to attend.
The Emergent Jewish participants were: Daniel Alter, Julia Andelman, Sharon Brous, Menachem Cohen, Shir-Yaakov Feinstein-Feit, Dov Gartenberg, Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, Margie Klein, Darren Kleinberg, Amichai Lau-Lavie, Shoshana Leis, and Jeremy Morrison. Andy Bachman was part of the original group but was unable to attend.