What does the Emerging church see itself as emerging from?
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According to Wikipedia, which cites two sources, the Emerging Church sees itself as emerging from the "inherited church".
Emerging churches are fluid, hard to define, and varied; they contrast themselves with what has gone before by using the term "inherited church".
Sources:
- Stuart Murray, Church After Christendom, (London: Paternoster Press, 2004), 73.
- Ian Mobsby, Emerging & Fresh Expressions of Church: How are they authentically Church and Anglican, (London: Moot Community Publishing, 2007), 20
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What is the Emergent church emerging from?
The word “emergent” is more of a marketing term than a doctrinal one. It coveys an image similar to a butterfly leaving a cocoon. In this way it implies an almost evolutionary or progressive change from the traditional.
The appeal is mostly at a feeling level and as it is so non-specific, many can be drawn to it.
As society transitions away from a Christian truth based world view, the non-Christian feeling based world view is in ascendancy. Words are often selected and used more for their efficacy than their accuracy.
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Evangelicalism. The early leaders of the Emergent church were members of a special project of Leadership Network, a non-denominational parachurch organization designed to help implement church growth/creativity projects for evangelical leaders. Originally, it was a special project aiming at the millennial demographic, which at the time was roughly college aged and showed signed of being a major demographic gap in large evangelical churches. As many of these leaders began to grow in size and popularity they became less affiliated with their traditional churches and more influenced by postmodern theology and philosophy. Though they typically receive harsh criticism from evangelicals for being difficult to pin down, there seems to be a self identity that the Emergent Church is a progressive development of Evangelicalism.
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