Beyond Strategy,Towards the Kingdom of God: The Post‐Critical Reconstructionist Mission of the Emerging Church |
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| Authors: | Joshua M. Moritz |
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| Affiliation: | Joshua M. Moritz is the former Managing Editor of Dialog: A Journal of Theology a member of the Dialog Editorial Advisory Board, and currently a research assistant and publications editor at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. He is also a Ph.D. student in Philosophical and Systematic Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract : The Emerging Church is a diverse global phenomenon which envisions a radical reforming of the theology and praxis of the broader Christian church in light of the philosophical and cultural shift from modernism to post‐modernism. Differing from the evangelical New Paradigm seeker‐sensitive Church's generational focus, and the organizational unity and routines of Mainline Protestant denominations the Emerging Church conversation endeavors to create committed, authentic, day‐to‐day communities that embrace ecumenical and ancient Christian theology and practices in order to live out the reality of the in‐breaking kingdom of God. Though precise systemic theological unity within the Emerging movement is recognized as an elusive goal that is generally not even sought, the movement as a whole finds much in common with post‐conservative and post‐liberal theology, and shares a joint mission with those who have been called to the task of post‐critical reconstruction. |
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| Keywords: | Emerging Church post‐critical reconstruction post‐modern post‐liberal post‐conservative New Paradigm Church missional seeker‐sensitive ancient‐future |
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