Evangelicals Engaging Emergent A Discussion of the Emergent Church Movement

by Henard, Bill; Greenway, Adam W.; Rainer, Thom S.

• ISBN13: 9780805447392
• ISBN10: 0805447393
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: B&H Academic

Summary

While plenty of books related to the conversations as well as controversies surrounding the emergent church have surfaced in recent years, no comprehensive evangelical assessment of the movement has been published until now.Evangelicals Engaging Emergentdraws from a broad spectrum of conservative evangelicalism to serve as a clear, informative, fair, and respectful guide for those desiring to know what "emergent" means, why it originated, where the movement is going, what issues concern emergent believers, and where they sometimes go wrong theologically. Among the dozen contributors are Norman Geisler ("A Postmodern View of Scripture"), Darrell Bock ("Emergent/Emerging Christologies"), Ed Stetzer ("The Emergent/Emerging Church: A Missiological Perspective"), and Daniel Akin ("The Emerging Church and Ethical Choices: The Corinthian Matrix").

Author Biography

Bill Henard is senior pastor of Porter Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. He is also president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, former trustee chairman for LifeWay Christian Resources, and assistant professor of Evangelism and Church Growth at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Henard and his wife, Judy, have three children and two grandchildren.

Adam Greenway is assistant professor of Evangelism and Applied Apologetics and director of Extension Education and Conferencing at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He also directs Research Doctoral Studies at the seminary’s Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
The Emerging Church: One Movement-Two Streams	p. 4
The Emergent/Emerging Church: A Missiological Perspective	p. 47
Biblical Section A Postmodern View of Scripture	p. 92
A New Kind of Interpretation: Brian McLaren and the Hermeneutics of Taste	p. 109
"Emergents," Evangelicals, and the Importance of Truth: Some Philosophical and Spiritual Lessons	p. 129
Theological Section Emergent/Emerging Christologies	p. 158
The Emerging Church and Salvation	p. 187
The Church According to Emergent/Emerging Church	p. 219
Practical Section The Emerging Church and Ethical Choices: The Corinthian Matrix	p. 262
To Preach or Not to Preach	p. 281
The Emerging Church and Evangelism	p. 308
Conclusion	p. 334
Name Index	p. 337
Subject Index	p. 340
Scripture Index	p. 342
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