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Persistent Questions Regarding the Emerging Church Movement Persistent Questions Regarding the Emerging Church Movement
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Evangelicals in Disguise? Evangelicals in Disguise?
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Liberal Protestants? Liberal Protestants?
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Religious Consumers? Religious Consumers?
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The Emerging Church is Dead? The Emerging Church is Dead?
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Persistent Characteristics of the Emerging Church Movement Persistent Characteristics of the Emerging Church Movement
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The Emerging Church Movement is a Transnational Network The Emerging Church Movement is a Transnational Network
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The Emerging Church Movement is Centered on Religious Individualization The Emerging Church Movement is Centered on Religious Individualization
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The Emerging Church Movement Supports a “Legitimate” Religious Self The Emerging Church Movement Supports a “Legitimate” Religious Self
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The Emerging Church Movement Builds on a Sacralized Self The Emerging Church Movement Builds on a Sacralized Self
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The Emerging Church Movement Promotes Religious Heterogeneity The Emerging Church Movement Promotes Religious Heterogeneity
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The Emerging Church Movement is a Religious Fulfillment of Cooperative Egoism The Emerging Church Movement is a Religious Fulfillment of Cooperative Egoism
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The Future of Emerging Christianity The Future of Emerging Christianity
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7 Understanding Emerging Christianity
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Published:May 2014
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Abstract
The Emerging Church Movement (ECM) is best understood as an intriguing reshaping of religious imperatives and the efforts to put them into practice. The book not only synthesizes the broader argument of the book but also places it in contrast to common interpretations of the ECM, such as that it is merely evangelicalism in disguise, liberal Protestantism in another guise, religious consumerism, or a movement that has already run its course. The book argues that the structure and practices of Emerging Christianity represent a distinctive approach to religious individualization. We describe the religious orientation or “self” of the Emerging Christian as “legitimate,” “sacralized,” and “pluralist,” which is supported by congregations that facilitate a cooperative egoism. Emerging congregations provide settings where pluralism is embraced and where the otherwise isolated self can find meaning and fulfillment through others. In the ways it has responded to modernity, the ECM (and the other expressions of Christianity it may influence) is remarkably well-adapted to persist, even thrive, as a viable religious alternative in the West. And the patterns of religious individualism, the formation of pluralist congregations, the allowance for multiple forms of legitimate spirituality, and the desire to strategically construct a personal faith that is valid and strengthened by life lived in the real world will be a ubiquitous element of modern religiosity.
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